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45 percent of the global population live in rural

08/10/2024 Go to Evidence

Around 3.4 billion people, 45 percent of the global population, live in rural areas of developing countries, and most depend on smallholder farms for their livelihoods and sustenance (IFAD, n.d.).

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

Why rural people. (s.f.). FIDA. https://www.ifad.org/en/investing-in-rural-people

Female labor force

08/10/2024 Go to Evidence

43% of the world's agricultural labor force is made up of women, who play key roles in food production, processing, marketing and consumption.

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

Reduce rural poverty. Women in agriculture. (s.f.). Organización de las Naciones Unidas para al Alimentación y la Agricultura. https://www.fao.org/reduce-rural-poverty/our work/women-in-agriculture/en/

Beneficiary: Women

Endangered species

08/10/2024 Go to Evidence

86% of endangered species, or 24,000 out of 28,000, are threatened by agriculture, which is the main driver of biodiversity loss.

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

Benton, T., Bieg, C., Harwatt, H., Pudasaini, R., y Wellesley, L. (2021). Food System Impacts on Biodiversity Loss: Three levers for food system transformation in support of nature. Chatham House.

World energy

08/10/2024 Go to Evidence

30% of the world's energy is used by food systems, which generate about 30% of greenhouse gas emissions, mainly due to the use of fossil fuels.

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

Energy. (s.f.). Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura. https://www.fao.org/energy/home/en

Access to electricity

08/10/2024 Go to Evidence

733 million people worldwide live without access to electricity, and 2.4 billion use harmful fuels for cooking, affecting their health and the environment.

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

Report: COVID-19 slows progress toward universal energy access. (2022, junio). Banco Mundial. https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/pressincreaserelease/2 022/06/01/report-covid-19-slows-progress-towardsuniversal energy-access

Beneficiary: Consumers
Result: Food access

Rural communities

08/10/2024 Go to Evidence

2.4 billion people in rural communities rely on biomass, such as charcoal, straw or firewood, for cooking due to lack of access to clean solutions (OECD, 2024).

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

Household air pollution. (2023, diciembre). OrganizaciónMundial de la Salud. https://www.who.int/news room/factsheets/detail/household-air-pollution-and-health

Sector: Food

Air pollution

08/10/2024 Go to Evidence

3.2 million deaths annually, nearly half of all air pollution deaths, are caused by indoor pollution from open fires or cooking and heating stoves.

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

Household air pollution. (2023, diciembre). Organización Mundial de la Salud. https://www.who.int/news room/factsheets/detail/household-air-pollution-and-health

Sector: Food

The food system has become more “global”

08/10/2024 Go to Evidence

The food system has become more “global”, as exports from developing countries and emerging economies made up more than one-third of global agri-food exports by 2018 with around a third of global agricultural and food exports traded within global value chains

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

The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2020. (2020). Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura. https://www.fao.org/resources/digital reports/stateof-agricultural-commodity-markets/en

Food systems generate US$12 trillion in hidden co

08/10/2024 Go to Evidence

Overall, global finance is not working for people or the planet. Food systems generate US$12 trillion in hidden social, economic and environmental costs.

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

Food Systems 2030. (s.f.). Banco Mundial. https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/food-systems 2030/overview

Global Biodiversity Program

08/10/2024 Go to Evidence

More than 3,000 protected areas and 250 million hectares of productive landscapes have been strengthened or intervened by UNDP's global biodiversity program since 2000.

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

UNDP’s global biodiversity program