Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
More than 1 million people of the rural agricultural population live in the Central American Dry Corridor, classified as tropical dry forest (World Bank, 2024).
70% of family farmers in northern Central America live below the poverty line, and 30% in extreme poverty (World Bank, 2024).
81% of smallholder farmers with less than 2 ha in non-developed countries (except China) had no agricultural insurance in 2019, while in Latin America and the Caribbean the figure was 67% (IFAD, 2020).
74,000 acres of agricultural land and more than 20,000 farmers were affected by severe flooding in Guyana in May 2021 (Shynkarenko, 2023).
39% of the population of Georgetown, Guyana, was affected by the January 2005 floods, with damages of US$500 million, including US$52.6 million in the agricultural sector (Shynkarenko, 2023).
22,812 hectares insured in 2001 increased to 100,372 hectares in 2017 in Uruguay (FAO, 2018).
220,000 million USD per year are estimated losses generated by plant pathogens (FAO, 2018).
70% of disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean are linked to climate events (FAO, 2018).
11.9 billion dollars per year is allocated to climate finance for agriculture globally (Smith and Bass, 2024).
US$22 billion in losses suffered by the agricultural sector in Latin America and the Caribbean from natural disasters between 2005 and 2015 (FAO, 2018).
