Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
US$2,414 million in 2017 is what the productive sector reached in Uruguay, representing 19.6% of DGI collection and 4.1% of GDP (Lavalleja and Scalese, 2020).
22 government officials and 19 journalists and media representatives strengthened their capacities between 2016 and 2017 on climate change and Guyana's National Adaptation Plan process.
0.59% of GDP is the estimated economic loss in Colombia associated with the 2015-2016 El Niño episode; economic growth is reduced by approximately 0.6 percentage points.
+7.30 percentage points is the approximate cumulative response of food inflation in Colombia between months 5 and 9 after the shock associated with El Niño.
0.4 percentage points is the estimated widening of Costa Rica's negative output gap relative to potential GDP associated with El Niño; year-on-year inflation increases by about 8.1 percentage points.
14% could increase the volume of trade in clean technologies, including those for air pollution control, if tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade in these technologies are eliminated (UNEP, 2019).
6.5 million premature deaths annually are caused by air pollution (UNEP, 2019).
Up to 14% of food is lost between post-harvest and retail phases worldwide (FAO, 2019).
Almost 25% of the species in Chile are endemic (MMA, 2019).
90% of fresh fruit imports in the United States came from Latin America in 2016 (IDB, 2019).
