Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
4 billion people live in water-scarce areas, and one in four cities faces water insecurity (World Bank, 2023).
60% is the required increase in global food production by 2050, when the population will reach 9.7 billion (UNDESA, 2019).
9% to 57% between 2000 and 2020 has increased extreme weather events (FAO et al., 2021).
30.9 million correspond to the rural youth of 160 million young people, aged 15-29 (Guiskin, 2019)
58 million women live together in rural areas on the continent (Guiskin, 2019).
20% of the region's population, about 120 million people, live in rural areas (CEPAL, FAO y IICA, 2023)
8 LAC countries are home to the Amazon biomass, whose conservation requires collective action to have a global impact (IDB, 2023).
3.7% was the growth rate of economic activity in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in 2022, which is about half of the 6.7% rate recorded in 2021 (IMF, 2023).
3.5% was the global GDP growth in 2022, 1.2 percentage points lower than forecasted before the Russian invasion of Ukraine (IMF, 2023)
1 % annual yield increases in key crops such as maize, rice and wheat are insufficient to double food production by 2050 (FAO, 2022).
