Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
25% of global cereal and oilseed production is currently generated by Latin America and the Caribbean (de Olloqui & Fernández Díez, 2017).
20% of global beef and poultry production is currently generated by Latin America and the Caribbean (de Olloqui & Fernández Díez, 2017).
30% to 40% of rural household heads, whether microentrepreneurs or small producers, carry out activities additional to their main activity, particularly producers with less land (de Olloqui & Fernández Díez, 2017).
75% of agricultural production in the Latin America and Caribbean region is represented by Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico (de Olloqui & Fernández Díez, 2017).
4 million farm households are regularly growing biofortified crops in HarvestPlus target countries (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).
75% of all biofortified harvested roots were consumed on-farm in 2015, according to HarvestPlus estimates (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).
20-50% of rural households sell maize after satisfying their own food needs in Zambia (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).
21.5 million small-scale farms were estimated in LAC for 2016 (Lowder et al., 2016).
Roughly 79% of the food consumed in Colombia is produced by family farming (CNIA, 2016).
30% of Colombian farmers are women (CNIA, 2016).
