Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
5.5% of children globally have been overweight since 2012, requiring greater efforts to reach the target of 3% by 2030 (UN, 2023).
Less than 50% of the people involved in agricultural production own land or have secure rights to it (UN, 2023).
9% increase in water use efficiency, but water stress and scarcity remain a concern in many regions of the world (UN, 2023).
Nearly 100 million hectares of net forest area were lost in the last two decades (UN, 2023).
59 million women live in rural areas in Latin America and the Caribbean, 20 million are part of the economically active population and 4.5 million are agricultural producers (FAO, 2017).
Between 4% and 13% of women farmers in Peru, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Brazil and Chile have access to credit (FAO, 2022).
Between 7.8% in Guatemala and 30.8% in Peru is the proportion of women landowners in LAC (FAO, 2022).
1.6% reached loans to the agricultural sector in LAC in 2020, before decreasing to 1.37% in 2021 (ECLAC et al., 2024).
300 billion per year until 2030 is the estimated cost of transforming agrifood systems and eradicating global hunger and malnutrition (ECLAC et al., 2024).
6.4% of the GDP of LAC countries is estimated as the average cost of malnutrition problems, ranging from malnutrition to overweight and obesity (ECLAC. et al, 2024).
