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1.2 billion people live in agricultural areas that are experiencing very high levels of water stress and frequent droughts (CEPAL, FAO y IICA, 2023).
ISPA, 2023
Perspectivas de la Agricultura y del Desarrollo Rural en las Américas: una mirada hacia América Latina y el Caribe 2023-2024/ CEPAL; FAO; IICA - San José, C.R: IICA, 2023
70% of the freshwater withdrawn in the world is used by agriculture, with an even greater use due to crop evapotranspiration (INDAP, 2023).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
12% increased global water use efficiency from 17.4 USD/m³ in 2015 to 19.4 USD/m³ in 2019 (FAO, 2022).
FAO,2022
FAO, 2022.Seguimiento del progreso en los indicadores de los ODS relacionados con la alimentación y la agricultura 2022. https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1785-seguimiento-del-progreso-en-los-indicadores-de-los-ods-relacionados-con-la-alimentacion-y-la-agricultura-2022
~75% of freshwater use in LAC is by agriculture.
~75 % es el consumo de agua dulce por agricultura en LAC.
75% of Jamaica's water supply is demanded by the agricultural sector, which is key to reducing GHG emissions (Government of Jamaica, 2021).
Government of Jamaica (2021). Climate change policy framework for Jamaica. Updated July 2021.
Government of Jamaica (2019). The National Water Sector Policy and Implementation Plan.
40% of the world's land area and 70% of water use are used for agriculture (OECD, 2020).
A escala mundial, el 40% de la superficie del planeta y el 70% del uso del agua corresponde a actividades agrícolas (OCDE, 2020)
OCDE (2020), “Agriculture and the environment”, OECD Publishing, Paris, ww.oecd.org/agriculture/topics/agriculture-and-the-environment/.
67% of total water extraction is allocated to agriculture in LAC (FAO, 2013).
67% de la extracción total de agua es destinada a agricultura en ALC (FAO, 2013)
FAO, 2013. AQUASTAT FAO Information System of Water and Agriculture. 2013. Roma
20 times the frequency of floods and droughts has increased in the Americas between the 20th and 21st centuries (IPCC, 2013)
20 veces ha aumentado la frecuencia de inundaciones y sequías en las Américas entre el siglo XX y el XXI (IPCC, 2013)
IPCC. 2013. Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Summary for Policymakers. Working Group I Con tribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergover nmental Panel on Climate Change. Editado por T. F. Stocker, D. Qin, G. Plattner, M.M.B. Tig nor, S.K. Allen. J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Sia. V. Bex y P.M. Midgley
82% of the world's arable land depends on rainfall (Jara-Rojas et al., 2013).
Roberto Jara-Rojas, Boris E. Bravo-Ureta, Alejandra Engler, José Díaz (2013). An analysis of the joint adoption of water conservation and soil conservation in Central Chile. Land Use Policy. Volumen 32, 2013, páginas 292-301. ISSN 0264-8377.
Schultz, B., Thatte, C.D., Labhsetwar, V.K. (2005). Irrigation and drainage. Main contributors to global food production. Irrigation and Drainage volumen 54, páginas 263–278.