Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
180 million hectares of forest area were lost worldwide between the early 1960s and 2020, almost 140 million of them in Latin America and the Caribbean (Díaz-Bonilla, 2024).
More than 200,000 dead cattle were recorded in Venezuela as a result of drought due to a shortage of grass in 2014 (IDB, 2024).
Only 10-20% of agricultural land belongs to women (UN, 2009).
163 (localized) drought events were reported in Peru between 2000 and 2010 (Ayala, 2023).
24 million hectares is the extent of the area dedicated to irrigation in Mexico (IICA, 2023).
More than 60% of irrigated cropland in the world is severely affected by water stress (FAO, 2020).
40% of the world's land area and 70% of water use are used for agriculture (OECD, 2020).
60 % increased the use of pesticides between 1997 and 2017, and more than 30 % increased the use of fertilizers between 2007 and 2017 in Latin America and the Caribbean (OECD, 2023).
35 % of the cultivated area in Latin America and the Caribbean is devoted to soybeans, followed by corn (22.7 %), sugar (7.5 %), wheat (6.2 %), beans (3.6 %), coffee (3 %), rice (2.6 %), other soybeans (2.1 %) and other crops (17 %) (FAO, 2023).
More than 70% of the agricultural area in Latin America and the Caribbean is in the hands of medium and large producers (Salcedo and Guzmán, 2014).
