Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
20% of the region's population, about 120 million people, live in rural areas (CEPAL, FAO y IICA, 2023)
63 million people benefit from family farming, which contributes between 27% and 67% of food production (FAO, 2022).
81.4% of farms in LAC and 1 out of every 4 hectares belong to family farming, which totals more than 16 million farms (FAO, 2022).
80% of the calories in the human diet are provided by agriculture (FAO, 2022)
1 % annual yield increases in key crops such as maize, rice and wheat are insufficient to double food production by 2050 (FAO, 2022).
Approximately 14% of the economic value of the food produced is lost from post-harvest to retail globally (FAO, 2019).
12% is the projected increase in agricultural and fishery production in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2032, growing at a much slower pace than in the past (OECD and FAO, 2023).
70% of production growth in Latin America and the Caribbean will come from the agricultural sector (+17%), while the livestock sector will grow by 11% and fishery production will decrease by 10% (OECD and FAO, 2023).
Ninety percent of poultry workers in Brazil are women.
60% of global coffee supply comes from smallholder farmers
