Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
11,000 members, half of them women, make up 41 credit cooperatives of the National Rural Fund in Nicaragua, focused on family agriculture.
83% of wheat and 68% of fresh milk in Brazil are marketed by cooperatives.
300,000 pequeños productores en Honduras abastecen el mercado interno de frijol y maíz, con una mínima parte destinada a la exportación regional.
67.9% of farms in Chile are mini-farms of less than 2 hectares under basic irrigation.
10% of Peru's small farmers, some 180,000, received technical assistance for areas of up to 5 hectares.
86% of cattle farms in Central America are small, with less than 18 hectares and a density of 1.5 animals per hectare.
Around 23% of the agricultural area of Latin America and the Caribbean is used by family farming.
16.5 million farms in Latin America and the Caribbean belong to family farmers, involving some 60 million people.
81% of farms in Latin America are family farms, which contribute between 27% and 67% of food production.
Over the last 40 years, the share of food, measured in calories, crossing an international border rose from 12.3 percent to over 19 percent.
