Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
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).
1.3% of annual GDP could be the economic cost of droughts and floods in Central Asia (FAO, 2023).
7.42% represents the value added of agriculture as a percentage of GDP in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2019, decreasing from 8.55% in 2011 (de Araújo Ramos et al., 2023).
0.44 units is the associated reduction in the outcome of SDG 11 for each unit increase in the value of Agriculture, according to the regression analysis (de Araújo Ramos et al., 2023).
3.98% represents the value added of agriculture as a percentage of GDP in Chile in 2019, increasing from 3.63% in 2011, with an increase of 9.64% (de Araújo Ramos et al., 2023).
4.21% represents the value added of agriculture as a percentage of GDP in Brazil in 2019, decreasing from 4.34% in 2011, with a variation of -3% (de Araújo Ramos et al., 2023).
Minus 0.44 is the regression coefficient showing a negative relationship between increased agriculture and SDG 11 scores in Latin America and the Caribbean (de Araújo Ramos et al., 2023).
60% of national exports in Latin America and the Caribbean correspond to the trade of raw materials due to the region's late industrialization (de Araújo Ramos et al., 2023).
35 % of the cultivated area in Latin America and the Caribbean is devoted to soybeans, followed by corn (22.7 %), sugar (7.5 %), wheat (6.2 %), beans (3.6 %), coffee (3 %), rice (2.6 %), other soybeans (2.1 %) and other crops (17 %) (FAO, 2023).
10% of total global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are represented by Latin America and the Caribbean (IDB, 2023).
