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Spending in the agricultural sector

23/10/2024 Go to Evidence

650 billion dollars are spent by governments on the agricultural sector; optimizing just 10% could reduce GHG emissions by 40% (World Bank, 2024).

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

Benefits to agriculture

21/10/2024 Go to Evidence

US$80 million was approved in 2022 by the IDB for the National Water Sector Transformation Program that will benefit agriculture (Govia & Roopnarine, 2024).

80 millones de dólares estadounidenses fueron aprobados en 2022 por el BID para el Programa Nacional de Transformación del Sector del Agua que beneficiará a la agricultura (Govia & Roopnarine, 2024).

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Investment in sustainable agriculture

21/10/2024 Go to Evidence

400 million Trinidadian dollars have been spent to date from the Green Fund on conservation and reforestation projects that benefit the agricultural sector (Govia & Roopnarine, 2024).

400 millones de dólares trinitenses se han gastado hasta la fecha del Fondo Verde en proyectos de conservación y reforestación que benefician al sector agrícola (Govia & Roopnarine, 2024).

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Agri-food emissions

20/09/2024 Go to Evidence

18-fold increase in annual investments, reaching USD 260 billion, will be required to halve food system emissions by 2030 (Sutton, Lotsch & Prasann, 2024).

Sutton, William R., Alexander Lotsch, & Ashesh Prasann. 2024. Recipe for a Livable Planet: Achieving Net Zero Emissions in the Agrifood System. Agriculture and Food Series. Washington, DC: Banco Mundial. doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-2093-9. License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0 IGO

Sustainable agriculture

20/09/2024 Go to Evidence

USD 4.3 trillion in 2030 could be generated in health, economic and environmental benefits by investing in low-emission agriculture and land-use transformation, with a 16 to 1 return on costs (Sutton, Lotsch & Prasann, 2024).

Sutton, William R., Alexander Lotsch, & Ashesh Prasann. 2024. Recipe for a Livable Planet: Achieving Net Zero Emissions in the Agrifood System. Agriculture and Food Series. Washington, DC: Banco Mundial. doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-2093-9. License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0 IGO

Climate finance

20/09/2024 Go to Evidence

USD 100 billion was the record climate finance from multilateral development banks in 2022, but only USD 2.3 billion went to mitigation in the agri-food system (Sutton, Lotsch & Prasann, 2024).

Sutton, William R., Alexander Lotsch, & Ashesh Prasann. 2024. Recipe for a Livable Planet: Achieving Net Zero Emissions in the Agrifood System. Agriculture and Food Series. Washington, DC: Banco Mundial. doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-2093-9. License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0 IGO

Public spending on agriculture

26/07/2024 Go to Evidence

US$8 and US$37 were the average public expenditure on agriculture per rural inhabitant in low-income and lower middle-income countries, respectively, between 2010 and 2019 (FAO et al., 2024).

FAO, FIDA, UNICEF, PMA y OMS. 2024

FAO, FIDA, UNICEF, PMA y OMS. 2024 . El estado de la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición en el mundo 2024: Financiación para acabar con el hambre, la inseguridad alimentaria y la malnutrición en todas sus formas