Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
From 33% to 22% female rural employment decreased between 2005 and 2014 (New Society, 2017).
30% is rural poverty among wage earners in rural areas and self-employed workers in 2015 in LAC (Nueva Sociedad, 2017).
68% was the representation of labor income in rural areas with respect to income in urban areas in LAC (Nueva Sociedad, 2017).
50% higher are incomes from rural non-farm jobs compared to farm incomes (New Society, 2017).
51% of employees in urban areas have a written employment contract, and only 27% in rural areas (Nueva Sociedad, 2017).
10.5% was the proportion of unionized rural wage workers employed in agriculture or rural non-agricultural activities in 2014 (Nueva Sociedad, 2017).
48% of the 12 million children who worked in LAC did so in agricultural activities, mainly as unpaid family members (Nueva Sociedad, 2017).
21.5 million small-scale farms were estimated in LAC for 2016 (Lowder et al., 2016).
Between June 2010 and May 2011, international maize and wheat prices roughly doubled; food prices peaked in February 2011.
395 days of excessive volatility were recorded for soft wheat between January 2007 and June 2011, compared with 207 days between December 2001 and December 2006.
