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Agricultural sector loans

17/05/2024 Go to Evidence

1.6% reached loans to the agricultural sector in LAC in 2020, before decreasing to 1.37% in 2021 (ECLAC et al., 2024).

CEPAL. et al, 2024

"FAO, IICA, CEPAL y P M A. 2024. Financiamiento para la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición en América Latina y el Caribe. Santiago de Chile. https://doi.org/10.4060/cd0527es"

Agri-food public spending

16/05/2024 Go to Evidence

23.4 billion per year on average (2001-2021) represented 0.67% of LAC GDP in public agrifood spending (ECLAC et al., 2024).

CEPAL. et al, 2024

"FAO, IICA, CEPAL y P M A. 2024. Financiamiento para la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición en América Latina y el Caribe. Santiago de Chile. https://doi.org/10.4060/cd0527es"

Policies that distort prices

01/12/2021 Go to Evidence

540 billion dollars are spent annually on producer support, two-thirds of which distort prices and damage the environment (FAO, UNDP and UNEP, 2021).

FAO, UNDP and UNEP; 2021

FAO, UNDP and UNEP. 2021. A multi-billion-dollar opportunity – Repurposing agricultural support to transform food systems. Rome, FAO.

RSPO Support Fund for Smallholders

28/10/2021 Go to Evidence

1 support fund has been established by RSPO to cover training or audit costs and help smallholder farmers implement improved agricultural practices and become certified (Larrea et al., 2021).

1 fondo de apoyo ha establecido RSPO para cubrir costos de entrenamiento o auditoría y ayudar a pequeños agricultores a implementar prácticas agrícolas mejoradas y obtener certificación (Larrea et al., 2021).

Investment in the recovery of sugarcane

24/01/2021 Go to Evidence

PRONAF credit increases the commercialization of family farms and is reinforced with technical assistance, while seed delivery shows no significant impact (Wesz Junior et al., 2024).

Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável de la Universidad de Brasília (UnB)

Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia para Mudanças Climáticas

Loans to women

03/01/2020 Go to Evidence

Thirteen times more loans are granted to large male producers compared to women, four times more to medium producers and twice as many to small producers (Dirección de Mujer Rural, 2020).

Dos veces mayor es el número de créditos otorgados a pequeños productores hombres en comparación con las mujeres, cuadruplica en el caso de los medianos productores y es trece veces mayor para los grandes productores (Dirección de Mujer Rural, 2020)

Dirección de Mujer Rural, 2020. Estado de la Inclusión de las Mujeres Rurales en Colombia. Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Embajada de Suecia en Colombia y ONU Mujeres.

Gender gap

05/08/2017 Go to Evidence

20% is the negative difference between the proportion of women with financial services in Colombia compared to men (Castro, 2017).

20% es la diferencia negativa entre la proporción de mujeres con servicios financieros en Colombia con respecto a la de los hombre (Castro, 2017)

Castro, 2017. . Las finanzas y el empoderamiento de la mujer. https://bancadelasoportunidades.gov.co/es/noticias/ las-finanzas-y-el-empoderamiento-de-la-mujer

Tag: Gaps
Country: Colombia