Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
More than 3.1 billion people, 42% of the world's population, could not afford a healthy diet in 2021, according to the SOFI 2023 report.
According to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report 2023 (SOFI 2023) global hunger in 2022 affects 9.2 percent of the world population – between 691 and 783 million people – and a total of 2.4 billion people experience moderate or severe food insecurity.
According to The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2023, over a quarter of a billion people were acutely food-insecure and required urgent food assistance in 58 food-crisis countries/territories in 2022. This is the highest number in the seven-year history of the GRFC.
80.6 million tons of food goes unsold or uneaten after being grown, processed, transported or stored, representing 40% of all food produced in the U.S. (ReFED, 2021).
2.5 units of soybean meal and 2 units of corn meal are required for each unit of pork produced in Mato Grosso (Garrett et al.,2018).
Between 15 % and 58 % of the daily energy in national diets comes from UPF, according to a recent review (Martini et al., 2021).
28% of the world's agricultural land is used to produce food that is wasted (Sutton, Lotsch & Prasann, 2024).
20% of the world's calories come from rice (Sutton, Lotsch & Prasann, 2024).
20% to 60% would increase meat prices if they reflected their true health, climate and environmental costs (Sutton, Lotsch & Prasann, 2024).
60% of total agri-food emissions come from the demand for animal-based diets (Sutton, Lotsch & Prasann, 2024).
