Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
The 53% of WPF local purchases were of local products for Guatemala and Honduras between 2013 and 2022 (WFP and ECLAC, 2024).
More than 1 billion people depend on livestock as a means of subsistence (Laborde, 2020).
240 billion dollars per year is the estimate of the total financial needs of small-scale producers in developing countries (World Bank, 2023).
80% of farms located in low and lower middle income countries have less than two hectares (World Bank, 2023).
608 million smallholder farmers exist worldwide, contributing approximately 35% of the total global food supply (Chang, 2022).
24 million hectares is the extent of the area dedicated to irrigation in Mexico (IICA, 2023).
USD 4.68 is the daily value per person to eat properly, which represents the highest cost in Central America (IDB, 2024).
17% of the population does not have access to a healthy diet (2021) (IDB, 2024).
12% of the formal labor force in Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Chile and Argentina was engaged in agriculture, mainly in rural areas (FAO, 2020).
35 % of the cultivated area in Latin America and the Caribbean is devoted to soybeans, followed by corn (22.7 %), sugar (7.5 %), wheat (6.2 %), beans (3.6 %), coffee (3 %), rice (2.6 %), other soybeans (2.1 %) and other crops (17 %) (FAO, 2023).
