Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
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).
More than 50% of food production comes from small farmers in LAC (Rabobank, 2015).
16.5 million farms in Latin America and the Caribbean belong to family farmers, involving some 60 million people.
Around 23% of the agricultural area of Latin America and the Caribbean is used by family farming.
More than two-thirds of the total family farming operations are poor in Paraguay (UNDP, 2021).
81% of farms in the Dominican Republic are family farms (281,526 units), close to the LAC average of 81.3%.
86% of cattle farms in Central America are small, with less than 18 hectares and a density of 1.5 animals per hectare.
