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Overfishing

08/08/2023 Go to Evidence

34% of the fisheries sector is in crisis due to overexploitation, exacerbated by open access regimes and subsidies.

El 34% del sector pesquero se encuentra en crisis debido a la sobreexplotación, exacerbada por los regímenes de acceso abierto y los subsidios.

Damania, Richard; Balseca, Esteban; de Fontaubert, Charlotte; Gill, Joshua; Kim, Kichan; Rentschler, Jun; Russ, Jason; Zaveri, Esha. 2023. Detox Development: Repurposing Environmentally Harmful Subsidies. © Washington, DC : World Bank.

Global: Cost increases

20/07/2023 Go to Evidence

50% of growers in the global fresh produce industry sold at a loss or broke even due to increased costs from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Global Coalition of Fresh Produce: Survey into costs and prices for fresh produce operators

Fresh water

01/06/2023 Go to Evidence

70% of the freshwater withdrawn in the world is used by agriculture, with an even greater use due to crop evapotranspiration (INDAP, 2023).

Instituto de Desarrollo Agropecuario (INDAP). (2023). Estrategia INDAP 2023-2030. Por una Agricultura Familiar Campesina e Indígena más sostenible, inclusiva y resiliente. Junio de 2023.

Banco Mundial. (2022). El agua en la agricultura. https://www.bancomundial.org/es/topic/water-in-agriculture#3

Food inequality

30/05/2023 Go to Evidence

More than 939 million women aged 15 or older experienced moderate to severe food insecurity in 2021, compared with 813 million men in the same age class.

FAO (2023)

FAO. 2023. The status of women in agrifood systems. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cc5343en

Food production

25/05/2023 Go to Evidence

70-80% of the world's food is produced by family farmers, pastoralists, fishers and aquaculturists, forest dwellers, food workers and their families (FAO, 2023).

FAO, 2023

FAO.2023.Agrifood solutions to climate change. https://openknowledge.fao.org/items/bab32e71-690d-4c07-ab9a-37f1703a9f59

Sector: Food