Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
24 Mha of additional forest per year, until 2030, could store a quarter of the atmospheric CO₂ needed to limit global warming to 1.5 °C (IICA, 2021).
4.7 million hectares per year represents the global net loss of forest area from 2010 to 2020, a reduction from 7.8 million hectares annually in the 1990s (Larrea et al., 2021).
2.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide are absorbed by forests every year, making them critical for climate change mitigation (Larrea et al., 2021).
80% of terrestrial biodiversity is home to forests according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Larrea et al., 2021).
1.6 billion people rely on forests for their livelihoods according to FAO (Larrea et al., 2021).
200,000 hectares will be forested in Chile by 2030, with at least 100,000 hectares of permanent cover and 70,000 hectares of native species (Government of Chile, 2021).
13% of agricultural soils are degraded and 20% are recovering as a result of overexploitation and inadequate or absent use of cultivation technologies.
28 % of agricultural land in low-income countries, 40 % in lower-middle, 85 % in upper-middle and 99 % in high-income countries are farms larger than 5 ha (Lowder et al., 2021).
50% of the world's tropical forests, 1/3 of its forests and 1/4 of its mangroves are in LAC.
65.40% of Panama's territory is covered by 4.93 million hectares of forest, placing it among the countries with the highest forest cover (Government of Panama, 2020).
