Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
Solo el 3% de hogares pobres es cubierto por programas de transferencias monetarias condicionadas en El Salvador (BID, 2024)
3.4 million quintals of beans reached Honduras in record production, 500 thousand more than in 2022 (SAG, 2024).
56% more food will need to be produced by the agricultural sector by 2050 compared to 2010 in order to feed a growing world population (FAO, 2023).
608 million smallholder farmers exist worldwide, contributing approximately 35% of the total global food supply (Chang, 2022).
At least $80 billion will be required in annual investments to meet the world's growing demand for food (World Bank, 2023).
17% of food production is wasted during the retail and consumption stages: 11% in households, 5% in food services, and 2% in retail (PNUMA, 2021)
Between 4.4% and 9.8% is the average increase in food tariffs if tariff barriers are not taken into account (IICA, 2023).
With 6.5% of the population, some 43.2 million people in LAC suffer from hunger (FAO et al., 2023).
11.3% was food inflation in January 2023 and in June it had dropped to 6.1% in Latin America (CEPAL, FAO y IICA, 2023).
80% of the calories in the human diet are provided by agriculture (FAO, 2022)
