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25% of Mexico's national territory is covered by grasslands and shrublands in arid and semi-arid zones (UNCCD, 2024).
UNCCD, 2024
UNCCD. 2024. Global Land Outlook Thematic Report on Rangelands and Pastoralism. United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn.
Nearly 32,000 ejidos and local communities, with more than 5.6 million ejidatarios, manage more than half of the land in Mexico (UNCCD, 2024).
UNCCD, 2024
UNCCD. 2024. Global Land Outlook Thematic Report on Rangelands and Pastoralism. United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn.
12% of Mexico's territory experiences severe or extreme soil degradation (UNCCD, 2024).
UNCCD, 2024
UNCCD. 2024. Global Land Outlook Thematic Report on Rangelands and Pastoralism. United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn.
67 million square kilometres of grasslands, representing 45% of the world's land surface, are used for livestock production, with almost half in drylands (UNCCD, 2024).
UNCCD, 2024
UNCCD. 2024. Global Land Outlook Thematic Report on Rangelands and Pastoralism. United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn.
35% of grasslands are at risk of degradation, with another 26-27% showing significant risk (UNCCD, 2024).
UNCCD, 2024
UNCCD. 2024. Global Land Outlook Thematic Report on Rangelands and Pastoralism. United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn.
76.8% of agricultural farms in Brazil are family agricultural units, which is equivalent to 3,897,408 of a total of 5,073,324 farms (IBGE, 2017).
IBGE (2017)
IBGE (2017). Censo Agropecuario 2017 de Brasil.
88.9% of the 291,497 farms in Paraguay are family units, equivalent to 259,188 (MAG, 2022).
MAG (2022)
MAG (2022). VI Censo Agropecuario Nacional (CAN) 2022. Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG).
There are 138,628 agricultural holdings in Chile (INE, 2021).
INE (2021)
INE (2021). VIII Censo Nacional Agropecuario y Forestal - Chile.
12% of Argentina's forest area was lost between 2001 and 2014 (World Bank, 2024).
Banco Mundial, 2024
Banco Mundial (2024), Hacia un sector agroalimentario más competitivo, inclusivo y resiliente en Argentina, © Washington, DC
18% of cultivated land is occupied by family farms, which generate 27% of total agricultural production measured in volume (World Bank, 2024).
Banco Mundial, 2024
Banco Mundial (2024), Hacia un sector agroalimentario más competitivo, inclusivo y resiliente en Argentina, © Washington, DC