Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
30% is rural poverty among wage earners in rural areas and self-employed workers in 2015 in LAC (Nueva Sociedad, 2017).
68% was the representation of labor income in rural areas with respect to income in urban areas in LAC (Nueva Sociedad, 2017).
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).
-0.19 percentage points is the estimated initial effect of El Niño on Chile's economic growth, followed by a reversal of +0.70 percentage points in the fourth quarter by the end of the first year. Inflation increases by 0.14 percentage points initially and by a cumulative 0.39 percentage points in the fourth quarter.
20.3% of the terrestrial and marine area of Latin America and the Caribbean is protected (UNEP, 2016).
