Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
From 31.9% to 28.7%, chronic malnutrition in children under 5 years old decreased in Ecuador from 2014 to 2018 (IEE, 2020).
35.4% was the overweight rate in boys and girls aged 5 to 11 in Ecuador in 2018: 36.9% in urban areas and 32.6% in rural areas (IEE, 2020).
At least 88% of LAC countries face multiple forms of malnutrition (World Bank, 2020).
815 million people went to bed hungry in LAC in 2017 (World Bank, 2020).
58% of the population (360 million people) in LAC were overweight, with Chile (64%), Mexico (63%), and Uruguay (63%) standing out (World Bank, 2020).
2 billion people, or one in three people globally, suffer from micronutrient deficiencies (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).
1 billion people seeks to reach HarvestPlus with biofortification by the year 2030 (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).
64% more likely to resolve their iron deficiency had children who consumed biofortified pearl millet for six months in Maharashtra, India (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).
60-80% of the Estimated Average Requirement (EAR) for zinc provide biofortified zinc wheat and zinc rice (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).
75% of all biofortified harvested roots were consumed on-farm in 2015, according to HarvestPlus estimates (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).
