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Ultraprocessed foods

15/10/2024 Go to Evidence

Between 15 % and 58 % of the daily energy in national diets comes from UPF, according to a recent review (Martini et al., 2021).

Los UPF hacen una contribución considerable a las dietas nacionales, oscilando entre el 15% y el 58% como proporción de la energía diaria en todos los países en una revisión reciente.

Robinson E, Johnstone AM (2024) Ultraprocessed food (UPF), health, and mechanistic uncertainty: What should we be advising the public to do about UPFs? PLoS Med 21(10): e1004439. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004439

Education in climate finance

15/10/2024 Go to Evidence

Only 1.5% of global climate finance went to the education sector in 2021, highlighting the need to increase financial support for education to drive climate action (World Bank, 2024).

Banco Mundial, 2024

Banco Mundial.2024.Elegir nuestro futuro:Educación para la acción climática. https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1796-elegir-nuestro-futuro:-educacion-para-la-accion-climatica

Employment in agri-food systems

14/10/2024 Go to Evidence

40.2% is the share of agrifood employment (including trade and transportation) in total employment in the Americas (FAO, 2024).

FAO (2024)

FAO. (2024). Estimating global and country-level employment in agrifood systems. Recuperado de: https://openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/08f5f6df-2ef2-45a2-85aa-b29c2ce01422/content

Carbon capture with CSA

08/10/2024 Go to Evidence

Between 20% and 80% increases carbon capture with the adoption of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices compared to farms that do not implement them (Solidaridad, 2024).

Solidaridad, 2024

Solidaridad, 2024. Cultivar el futuro aprovechando las lecciones de la agricultura climáticamente inteligente. https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1790-cultivar-el-futuro-aprovechando-las-lecciones-de-la-agricultura-climaticamente-inteligente

Over a quarter of a billion people were acutely fo

08/10/2024 Go to Evidence

According to The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2023, over a quarter of a billion people were acutely food-insecure and required urgent food assistance in 58 food-crisis countries/territories in 2022. This is the highest number in the seven-year history of the GRFC.

Apoyar la transformación de los sistemas alimentarios hacia la sostenibilidad y resiliencia. Libro blanco. PNUD

The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2023

Global hunger in 2022 affects 9.2 percent of the

08/10/2024 Go to Evidence

According to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report 2023 (SOFI 2023) global hunger in 2022 affects 9.2 percent of the world population – between 691 and 783 million people – and a total of 2.4 billion people experience moderate or severe food insecurity.

Apoyar la transformación de los sistemas alimentarios hacia la sostenibilidad y resiliencia. Libro Blanco. PNUD

State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report 2023 (SOFI 2023)

Healthy diet

08/10/2024 Go to Evidence

More than 3.1 billion people, 42% of the world's population, could not afford a healthy diet in 2021, according to the SOFI 2023 report.

Apoyar la transformación de los sistemas alimentarios hacia la sostenibilidad y resiliencia. Libro Blanco. PNUD

State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report 2023 (SOFI 2023)

Food systems

08/10/2024 Go to Evidence

80% of deforestation, 70% of biodiversity loss and 70% of freshwater use are caused by food systems (WWF, 2022).

Apoyar la transformación de los sistemas alimentarios hacia la sostenibilidad y resiliencia. Libro blanco. PNUD

WWF. (2022). Food Systems and Sustainable Land Use: A WWF food manifesto for COP15. https://wwfint.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/wwf_food_manifesto_for_cop_15_7_may.pdf.

Food insecurity

08/10/2024 Go to Evidence

2.4% is the gender gap in global food insecurity in 2022, with a greater impact on women than men, although the effects of the pandemic have shown signs of easing (SOFI 2023 Report).

Apoyar la transformación de los sistemas alimentarios hacia la sostenibilidad y resiliencia. Libro Blanco. PNUD

SOFI 2023