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Coffee law has 37 articles

08/06/2026 Go to Evidence

37 articles make up the Law for the Promotion and Development of Coffee approved by Venezuela’s National Assembly to boost the production cycle from planting to export.

OPSAa (2026)

OPSAa. (2026, 8 de junio). Venezuela: Ley para el Fomento y Promoción del Café protegerá el trabajo de las familias caficultoras. https://opsaa.iica.int/es/resource-2764-venezuela-ley-para-el-fomento-y-promocion-del-cafe-protegera-el-trabajo-de-las-familias-caficultoras

Youth employment

02/12/2025 Go to Evidence

39.6% of youth employment was observed in LAC in 2022 (OECD, 2024).

OECD, 2024

OECD, CEPAL, CAF – Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe, & Comisión Europea. (2024). Perspectivas económicas de América Latina 2024: Financiando el desarrollo sostenible. OECD Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/25aed2f5-es

Employment in 2022

02/12/2025 Go to Evidence

3 out of 10 young women found employment in 2022 (OECD, 2024).

OECD, 2024

OECD, CEPAL, CAF – Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe, & Comisión Europea. (2024). Perspectivas económicas de América Latina 2024: Financiando el desarrollo sostenible. OECD Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/25aed2f5-es

Forests in Latin America and the Caribbean.

30/11/2025 Go to Evidence

23% of the world’s forests and 60% of global biodiversity are located in Latin America and the Caribbean, highlighting the region’s strategic importance for ecosystem and biodiversity conservation. This significant share also reflects the critical role of LAC in providing essential ecosystem services and in supporting global efforts to address environmental degradation and climate change (World Resources Institute, 2024)

World Resources Institute, 2024

Emissions from land use in LAC.

30/11/2025 Go to Evidence

58% of greenhouse gas emissions in Latin America and the Caribbean originate from land use, land-use change, and the forestry sector, highlighting the significant weight of these activities in the region’s climate dynamics and the urgent need to strengthen mitigation efforts (World Resources Institute, 2024).

World Resources Institute, 2024

Forest cover loss in LAC

30/11/2025 Go to Evidence

7% of forest cover was lost between 1990 and 2020 in Latin America and the Caribbean, equivalent to 138 million hectares, highlighting the scale of landscape degradation in the region and the urgency of advancing large-scale restoration and conservation efforts (World Resources Institute, 2024).

World Resources Institute, 2024

Labor force

23/10/2024 Go to Evidence

1.2 billion young people will enter the labor force in developing countries in the next decade, but there will only be 420 million jobs, leaving 800 million without a clear path to employment (World Bank, 2024).

Banco Mundial (23 de octubre de 2024). El sector alimentario como motor de crecimiento y empleo. Reuniones Anuales de 2024.

Beneficiary: Youth

Developing countries

01/01/2023 Go to Evidence

1.2 billion young people aged 15-24, 16% of the world's population, live mostly in developing countries (FAO, 2023).

FAO (2023). FAO’s work on the themes of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP). Roma.

Beneficiary: Youth

Youth Exodus

10/08/2021 Go to Evidence

Between 40% and 60% of young people, especially rural youth, migrate to cities (ECLAC, 2021).

Entre el 40% y el 60% de los jóvenes, especialmente de los jóvenes rurales, migran hacia las ciudades (CEPAL, 2021)

CEPAL, 2021. Desarrollo rural en América Latina y el Caribe. ¿La construcción de un nuevo modelo?

High Child Malnutrition in Ecuador

31/05/2020 Go to Evidence

From 31.9% to 28.7%, chronic malnutrition in children under 5 years old decreased in Ecuador from 2014 to 2018 (IEE, 2020).

De 31,9% a 28,7% pasó la desnutrición crónica en niños menores a 5 años en Ecuador del 2014 al 2018 (IEE, 2020)

IEE, 2020. Estudio para una línea base para la implementación del Decenio de las NNUU de la Agricultura Familiar en Ecuador.