World food demand

50-60% will increase global food demand in the coming decades (World Bank, 2024).

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

Ultraprocessed foods

Between 15 % and 58 % of the daily energy in national diets comes from UPF, according to a recent review (Martini et al., 2021).

Los UPF hacen una contribución considerable a las dietas nacionales, oscilando entre el 15% y el 58% como proporción de la energía diaria en todos los países en una revisión reciente.

Robinson E, Johnstone AM (2024) Ultraprocessed food (UPF), health, and mechanistic uncertainty: What should we be advising the public to do about UPFs? PLoS Med 21(10): e1004439. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004439

Over a quarter of a billion people were acutely fo

According to The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2023, over a quarter of a billion people were acutely food-insecure and required urgent food assistance in 58 food-crisis countries/territories in 2022. This is the highest number in the seven-year history of the GRFC.

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The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2023

Access to electricity

733 million people worldwide live without access to electricity, and 2.4 billion use harmful fuels for cooking, affecting their health and the environment.

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Report: COVID-19 slows progress toward universal energy access. (2022, junio). Banco Mundial. https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/pressincreaserelease/2 022/06/01/report-covid-19-slows-progress-towardsuniversal energy-access

Food insecurity

258 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2022, in the 10 countries most affected by fragile and crisis contexts (OECD, 2022).

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OCDE. (2022). States of Fragility 2022. OECD Publishing, Paris. Food Security Information Network & Global Network Against Food Crises. (2023). Global Report on Food Crises 2023: Joint analysis for better decisions. https://www.fsinplatform.org/sites/default/files/resources/files/GRFC2023-compressed.pdf

Food insecurity

2.4% is the gender gap in global food insecurity in 2022, with a greater impact on women than men, although the effects of the pandemic have shown signs of easing (SOFI 2023 Report).

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SOFI 2023

Healthy diet

More than 3.1 billion people, 42% of the world's population, could not afford a healthy diet in 2021, according to the SOFI 2023 report.

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State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report 2023 (SOFI 2023)

Global hunger in 2022 affects 9.2 percent of the

According to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report 2023 (SOFI 2023) global hunger in 2022 affects 9.2 percent of the world population – between 691 and 783 million people – and a total of 2.4 billion people experience moderate or severe food insecurity.

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State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report 2023 (SOFI 2023)

Agricultural land

28% of the world's agricultural land is used to produce food that is wasted (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

FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). 2013. Food Wastage Footprint: Impacts on Natural Resources. Summary Report. Rome: FAO. https://www.fao.org/3/i3347e/i3347e.pdf. World Bank. 2020. Addressing Food Loss and Waste: A Global Problem with Local Solutions. Washington, DC: World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34521.

Caloric value of rice

20% of the world's calories come from rice (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

Fukagawa, N. K., and L. H. Ziska. 2019. “Rice: Importance for Global Nutrition.” Supplement, Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology (Tokyo) 65: S2–S3. https://doi.org/10.3177/jnsv.65.S2.