Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
30-50% lower yields in family farming compared to commercial agriculture.
94% of small cassava producers yield less than 13 tons/ha, while large producers yield close to 30 tons/ha.
87% of family sugarcane farmers have a yield of less than 60 tons/ha, while large technicized producers exceed 100 tons/ha.
11,000 members, half of them women, make up 41 credit cooperatives of the National Rural Fund in Nicaragua, focused on family agriculture.
83% of wheat and 68% of fresh milk in Brazil are marketed by cooperatives.
300,000 pequeños productores en Honduras abastecen el mercado interno de frijol y maíz, con una mínima parte destinada a la exportación regional.
67.9% of farms in Chile are mini-farms of less than 2 hectares under basic irrigation.
10% of Peru's small farmers, some 180,000, received technical assistance for areas of up to 5 hectares.
86% of cattle farms in Central America are small, with less than 18 hectares and a density of 1.5 animals per hectare.
Around 23% of the agricultural area of Latin America and the Caribbean is used by family farming.
