Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
300 billion dollars annually is the cost of land degradation (Nkonya. et al. 2016).
0.90% (28.5 kha) is the land cover in the Dominican Republic occupied by agricultural land and 17% of the land cover is grassland (554 kha) (GFW, 2024).
100% of the annual loss of 24 billion tons of fertile soils generates a cost of US$40 billion to the economy (UNEP, 2024).
96.4 million hectares were under organic agricultural management worldwide in 2022 (FIBL, 2024).
100% of the urea used in Central and South America is imported (GGGI, 2024).
More than 50% of the 201 million tons of inorganic fertilizers used in 2020 are composed of nitrogen, while 24% corresponds to phosphorus and 20% to potassium (GGGI, 2024).
201 tons of inorganic fertilizers, composed of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, represented global demand in 2020 (GGGI, 2023).
0.29% (22.4 kha) of Panama's land area is dedicated to fruit crops, followed by oil palm with 0.27% (21 kha) (GFW, 2024).
0.12% (6.97 kha) of Panama's land cover is occupied by agricultural land and 9.7% of the land cover corresponds to pasture (547 kha) (GFW, 2024).
244 Mt is the total carbon storage in El Salvador, with most of the carbon stored in soil (GFW, 2024).
