Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
50% higher are incomes from rural non-farm jobs compared to farm incomes (New Society, 2017).
51% of employees in urban areas have a written employment contract, and only 27% in rural areas (Nueva Sociedad, 2017).
10.5% was the proportion of unionized rural wage workers employed in agriculture or rural non-agricultural activities in 2014 (Nueva Sociedad, 2017).
48% of the 12 million children who worked in LAC did so in agricultural activities, mainly as unpaid family members (Nueva Sociedad, 2017).
20.3% of the terrestrial and marine area of Latin America and the Caribbean is protected (UNEP, 2016).
0.5 is the average Gini for Latin America and the Caribbean, making it the region with the highest inequality on the planet (IDB, 2016).
0.79 is the GINI coefficient for land in LAC, 0.85 for South America, and 0.75 for Central America (Oxfam, 2016).
21.5 million small-scale farms were estimated in LAC for 2016 (Lowder et al., 2016).
