Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
20% of the region's population, about 120 million people, live in rural areas (CEPAL, FAO y IICA, 2023)
45.9% of people in Latin America live in inequality, making the region the most unequal in the world (CEPAL, FAO y IICA, 2023)
USD 95 billion in annual losses are linked to 420 000 premature deaths from foodborne diseases in low- and middle-income countries (Jaffee et al., 2019).
600 million cases of foodborne diseases were estimated by WHO for 2010 (Jaffee et al., 2019)
63 million people benefit from family farming, which contributes between 27% and 67% of food production (FAO, 2022).
81.4% of farms in LAC and 1 out of every 4 hectares belong to family farming, which totals more than 16 million farms (FAO, 2022).
80% of the calories in the human diet are provided by agriculture (FAO, 2022)
Approximately 14% of the economic value of the food produced is lost from post-harvest to retail globally (FAO, 2019).
1 % annual yield increases in key crops such as maize, rice and wheat are insufficient to double food production by 2050 (FAO, 2022).
Ninety percent of poultry workers in Brazil are women.
