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Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies

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People reached by HarvestPlus biofortified crops

03/01/2017 Go to Evidence

20 million people in farm households in developing countries are growing and consuming biofortified crops according to HarvestPlus (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).

20 millones de personas en hogares agrícolas de países en desarrollo están cultivando y consumiendo cultivos biofortificados según HarvestPlus (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).

Bouis, H.E., & Saltzman, A. (2017). Improving nutrition through biofortification: A review of evidence from HarvestPlus, 2003 through 2016. Global Food Security, 12, 49-58.

Tag: Nutrition_Smart_Agriculture Innovation Food_Securtiy_And_Nutrition
Country: Bangladesh Bolivia Brazil China Colombia Guatemala Haiti India Nicaragua Nigeria Pakistan Panama Democratic Republic of the Congo Rwanda Uganda Zambia
Sector: Agri-Food (total) Seeds
Area: Bioinputs Biodiversity Conservation
Instrument: Direct purchase and delivery of agricultural inputs (seeds, fertilizers, etc.)
Beneficiary: Consumers Agricultural producers
Result: Technological Innovation Impact: Health and Nutrition Impact: Food and nutritional security

Megadiverse countries

05/01/2016 Go to Evidence

6 (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela) of the 17 most megadiverse countries in the world are in LAC.

UNEP-WCMC (2016).

UNEP-WCMC (UN Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Reino Unido). 2016. El estado de la biodiversidad en América Latina y el Caribe: una evaluación del avance hacia las metas de AICHI para la diversidad biológica (en línea). Cambridge, Reino Unido. 140 p.

Country: Brazil Colombia Ecuador Mexico Peru Venezuela Latin America and the Caribbean (aggregate)
Sector: Environment and natural resources
Area: Biodiversity Conservation
Result: Impact: Improved biodiversity status

Agricultural aid

03/01/2015 Go to Evidence

4% maintained Mexico in distorting aid between 2001 and 2007, below Canada (6.1%), but higher than United States (3.1%), European Union (2.9%) and Brazil (1.8%) (CEDRSSA, 2015, p. 17).

4% mantuvo México en ayudas distorsionantes entre 2001 y 2007, por debajo de Canadá (6.1%), pero superior a Estados Unidos (3.1%), la Unión Europea (2.9%) y Brasil (1.8%) (CEDRSSA, 2015, p. 17).

Macías Uribe, C. (2019). World Agricultural Trade Reform, Insertion of Mexico´s agricultural sector under NAFTA and the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, 1994-2012. Textual, 74, 13-49.

Tag: Trade&Environment Regional_Cooperation NewGenerationPolicies
Country: Brazil Canada United States Mexico European Union
Sector: Agri-Food (total) Economia, total goods
Area: Associativity International Trade and Regional Integration
Instrument: Support or subsidy for agricultural producer prices Strategies, plans, policies or guidelines; sectoral or national Studies and diagnoses Countervailing measures
Beneficiary: Agricultural producers
Result: Improved commercial competitiveness Improved market efficiency Improved public policy formulation and implementation

Double crop soybean-corn

21/10/0218 Go to Evidence

93% of the total area of double cropping in Mato Grosso corresponded to the soybean-corn system during the study period (Garrett et al., 2018).

93% del área total de doble cultivo en Mato Grosso correspondía al sistema soja-maíz durante el período de estudio (Garrett et al., 2018).

Garrett, R.D., Koh, I., Lambin, E.F., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Kastens, J.H., & Brown, J.C. (2018). Intensification in agriculture-forest frontiers: Land use responses to development and conservation policies in Brazil. Global Environmental Change, 53, 233-243.

Country: Brazil
Sector: Cereals and cereal products
Area: Territorial Management
Instrument: Studies and diagnoses
Beneficiary: Agricultural producers Land owners or users
Result: Productive diversification