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

Evidences

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Social spending

02/12/2025 Go to Evidence

Social spending in 2022 exceeded the 2019 level by 0.3 percentage points (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

Country: Latin America and the Caribbean (aggregate)
Sector: Multisectoral
Area: Value Addition
Beneficiary: Public institutions

Central governments

02/12/2025 Go to Evidence

Social spending by central governments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) represented 11.5% of GDP 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

Country: Latin America and the Caribbean (aggregate)
Sector: Multisectoral
Area: Value Addition
Beneficiary: Public institutions

Formality

02/12/2025 Go to Evidence

Formal workers earned 1.7, 1.3 and 1.6 times more in Barbados, Chile, Brazil and Colombia (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

Country: Barbados Brazil Chile Colombia
Sector: Multisectoral
Area: Value Addition
Beneficiary: Agricultural workers

Formal workers

02/12/2025 Go to Evidence

Formal workers earned 4.4, 2.5 and 2.4 times more than informal workers in El Salvador, Honduras and Peru (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

Country: El Salvador Honduras Peru
Sector: Multisectoral
Area: Value Addition
Beneficiary: Agricultural workers

Formal workers

02/12/2025 Go to Evidence

Formal workers earned on average twice the hourly wage compared to informal workers in Latin America and the Caribbean (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

Country: Latin America and the Caribbean (aggregate)
Sector: Multisectoral
Area: Value Addition
Beneficiary: Agricultural workers

Gini coefficients

02/12/2025 Go to Evidence

0.61, 0.50 and 0.51 were the Gini coefficients in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic and El Salvador in the early 2000s (OECD, 2024).

OECD, 202

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

Country: Latin America and the Caribbean (aggregate)
Sector: Multisectoral
Area: Value Addition
Result: Impact: Economic growth

Productivity in LAC

02/12/2025 Go to Evidence

Three key sectors —trade, manufacturing and services— concentrate the productivity lag in LAC (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

Tag: Gaps
Country: Latin America and the Caribbean (aggregate)
Sector: Multisectoral
Area: Regenerative and Resilient Agriculture Family Farming Value Addition
Beneficiary: Family agriculture Agricultural workers
Result: Information generation

Extreme poverty

02/12/2025 Go to Evidence

1 in 10 people in LAC lived in extreme poverty in 2024 (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

Tag: Gaps
Country: Latin America and the Caribbean (aggregate)
Sector: Multisectoral
Area: Regenerative and Resilient Agriculture Family Farming
Beneficiary: Family agriculture Public institutions
Result: Information generation

Productivity gap

02/12/2025 Go to Evidence

The productivity gap between Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and high-income economies has been declining for 33 years (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

Tag: Gaps
Country: Latin America and the Caribbean (aggregate)
Sector: Multisectoral
Area: Regenerative and Resilient Agriculture Family Farming
Beneficiary: Urban or peri-urban farmers Family agriculture Agricultural workers
Result: Information generation

Poverty in 2024

02/12/2025 Go to Evidence

26.8% of the population of LAC was in poverty in 2024 (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

Tag: Gaps
Country: Latin America and the Caribbean (aggregate)
Sector: Multisectoral
Area: Regenerative and Resilient Agriculture Family Farming
Instrument: Collect, analyze, disseminate and exchange data and information between countries
Beneficiary: Family agriculture Public institutions