Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
45% of Family Farming in Guatemala and El Salvador corresponds to salaried workers with agriculture as a secondary activity.
10% of Peru's small farmers, some 180,000, received technical assistance for areas of up to 5 hectares.
18% and 10% was the yield decrease in the US for corn and soybeans as a result of temperature increase in 2012 (Wescott et al., 2013).
67% of total water extraction is allocated to agriculture in LAC (FAO, 2013).
20.6% was the annual growth rate of Chilean wine exports between 1990 and 2007, becoming the fastest-growing product among the main export categories in the country (Sabel et al., 2012).
US$50 billion could decrease annual agricultural exports in LAC by 2050 due to climate change (Fernandes et al., 2012).
20-30% could increase yields if women had the same access to productive assets as men, reducing global hunger by more than 12%.
There are 44,781 farms in Uruguay, of which 25,285 are family units (MGAP, 2011).
$20 billion is the direct economic loss due to zoonoses over a decade, and it is much more than $200 billion in indirect losses (World Bank, 2010).
294 inhabitants/km2 represents the high population density of El Salvador, being a small country in terms of territorial extension (Martín Manzano, 2012).
