Evidencia

Increase in agricultural production

14% will increase crop and livestock production in Latin America and the Caribbean in the next 10 years (FAO, 2023).

Meat production in LAC

23% of beef and buffalo meat, as well as 21.4% of poultry meat worldwide, is produced in Latin America and the Caribbean (FAO, 2023).

Growth in agricultural and fishery production

30% of global production of corn, soybeans, sugar, beef, poultry and flour comes from Latin America, driving agricultural growth in the region (OECD/FAO, 2023).

Global food production projection

60% is the required increase in global food production by 2050, when the population will reach 9.7 billion (UNDESA, 2019).

Agriculture as a source of employment

12% of the formal labor force in Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Chile and Argentina was engaged in agriculture, mainly in rural areas (FAO, 2020).

Family farming establishments

81.3% of the total number of farms are small farms, which occupy 23.4% of the land in Latin America and the Caribbean (OECD, 2022).