Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
6.9% of the population would remain destitute if there is a loss of 5.6% of agricultural product in LAC (ECLAC & EU, 2017).
45% of registered family agricultural producers in Argentina are women (World Bank, 2024).
58% of household heads on family farms have only primary education in Argentina (World Bank, 2024).
70% of family agricultural producers in Argentina currently do not belong to cooperatives (World Bank, 2024).
75% of the fertilizers used in Argentine agriculture in 2021 were imported, with a value of USD 2.3 billion (World Bank, 2024).
Three quarters of the growth of Argentina's agrifood sector in the last two decades has come from grains and oilseeds (World Bank, 2024).
20% of the added value of the agri-food sector in Argentina is represented by the soybean value chain, followed by wheat, beef, corn and milk (World Bank, 2024).
71.7% was the multidimensional poverty in rural areas of Ecuador in 2019, compared to 22.7% in urban areas (IIE, 2020).
3.5% was the annual growth of agricultural production in LAC between 1950 and 1975 (ECLAC, 2021).
More than two-thirds of the total family farming operations are poor in Paraguay (UNDP, 2021).
