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Investment required in SAIA services

21/04/2025 Go to Evidence

80 million dollars annually are estimated necessary to invest in each country of the region to strengthen Agricultural Health and Food Safety Services (SAIA), fundamental to facilitate international trade according to studies cited by CAF (Velásquez, A., 2025).

80 millones de dólares anuales se estima necesario invertir en cada país de la región para fortalecer los Servicios de Sanidad Agropecuaria e Inocuidad Alimentaria (SAIA), fundamentales para facilitar el comercio internacional según estudios citados por CAF (Velásquez, A., 2025).

Velásquez, A. (2025). Estudios arqueológicos del aguacate en Mesoamérica. Editorial Académica.

Investment in agriculture

03/04/2025 Go to Evidence

17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have recorded a decline in budgetary investment in agriculture in the last three years (Conroy et al., 2024).

(Conroy et al., 2024).

Conroy, H., Rondinone, G., De Salvo, C. P., y Muñoz, G. (2024). Políticas agropecuarias en América Latina y el Caribe 2023. https://doi.org/10.18235/0013100

Agricultural support

03/04/2025 Go to Evidence

1.3% of GDP and 16% of agricultural GDP in LAC correspond to agricultural support (Conroy et al., 2024).

(Conroy et al., 2024).

Conroy, H., Rondinone, G., De Salvo, C. P., y Muñoz, G. (2024). Políticas agropecuarias en América Latina y el Caribe 2023. https://doi.org/10.18235/0013100

Financial inclusion

03/12/2024 Go to Evidence

980 million women are estimated to be excluded from formal financial systems (ECLAC, 2024).

CEPAL, 2024

M. Williams and A. Constable, “Climate change financing in the Caribbean: an analysis from a gender perspective”, Gender Affairs Series, No. 165 (LC/TS.2024/104), Santiago, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), 2024

Agricultural production

06/11/2024 Go to Evidence

0.7% of the value of agricultural production in Brazil is spent on R&D and extension services (OECD, 2024).

OECD (2024), Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation 2024: Innovation for Sustainable Productivity Growth, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/74da57ed-en

Agricultural gross income

06/11/2024 Go to Evidence

3.3% of gross farm income in Brazil corresponded to producer support in 2021-23, a decrease from 7.6% in 2000-02 (OECD, 2024).

OECD (2024), Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation 2024: Innovation for Sustainable Productivity Growth, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/74da57ed-en

Agricultural support in Argentina

06/11/2024 Go to Evidence

0.1 % of GDP was the budget support to agriculture in 2021-23, while the Total Support Estimate (TSE) remained negative from -0.8 % in 2000-02 to -1.6 % in 2021-23 (OECD, 2024).

OECD (2024)

OECD (2024), Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation 2024: Innovation for Sustainable Productivity Growth, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/74da57ed-en

Global climate finance

23/10/2024 Go to Evidence

4% of global climate finance goes to agriculture, despite its vulnerability and contribution to emissions (World Bank, 2024).

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