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Sales of packaged foods in the world

18/08/2023 Go to Evidence

From 67.7% kg per capita in 2005 to 76.9% in 2019, the total volume of global packaged food sales increased (IFAD, 2023).

De 67,7% kg per cápita en 2005 a 76,9% en 2019 pasó el volumen total de ventas de alimentos envasados a nivel mundial (IFAD, 2023)

IFAD, 2023. Abordar el sobrepeso y la obesidad en los países de ingreso mediano y bajo en el ámbito del desarrollo rural y los sistemas alimentarios. Datos empíricos de alcance mundial frente a la práctica en cinco países

Cereal stocks and consumption

31/03/2023 Go to Evidence

29.5% represents the relationship between stocks and consumption of cereals in the world for the period 2022-2023 (FAO, 2023).

FAO, 2023

FAO (Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura, Italia). 2023. Crop Prospects and Food Situation – Quarterly Global Report No. 1, March 2023. Reporte técnico. Roma, Italia.

Food Waste USA

17/06/2021 Go to Evidence

80.6 million tons of food goes unsold or uneaten after being grown, processed, transported or stored, representing 40% of all food produced in the U.S. (ReFED, 2021).

80.6 millones de toneladas de alimentos quedan sin vender o sin comer después de haber sido cultivados, procesados, transportados o almacenados, representando el 40% de todos los alimentos producidos en EE.UU. (ReFED, 2021).

ReFED. (2021). Roadmap to 2030: Reducing U.S. Food Waste by 50% and the ReFED Insights Engine.

Coverage of investment in school feeding programs

15/04/2021 Go to Evidence

Up to US$75 billion is expended annually, mostly by governments, in providing school feeding to no less than 368 million children daily on average (WFP, 2021)

Hasta 75 mil millones de dólares se gastan anualmente, principalmente por parte de los gobiernos, para proporcionar alimentación escolar a no menos de 368 millones de niños diariamente en promedio (WFP, 2021)

WFP, 2021. School feeding programmes in low- and lower-middle-income countries. A focused review of recent evidence from impact evaluations

Rust resistance in coffee varieties

13/11/2020 Go to Evidence

Five coffee varieties, were assessed for 13 morphological traits and rust resistance. Colombia, Catimor, and Limani were highly resistant; Caturra was the most susceptible (Cosme-De La Cruz et al., 2020).

Cosme-De La Cruz, Buendía-Molina, Adama-Rojas & Pocomucha-Poma, 2020

Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria (INIA) - Perú

Global food production projection

26/08/2019 Go to Evidence

60% is the required increase in global food production by 2050, when the population will reach 9.7 billion (UNDESA, 2019).

Se prevé que para 2050 la población mundial llegue a los 9.700 millones de personas, Para ir a la par de este rápido crecimiento, la producción mundial de alimentos tendrá que aumentar aproximadamente un 60% (UNDESA, 2019)

UNDESA (2019), World Population Prospects 2019, Departamento de Asuntos Económicos y Sociales de Naciones Unidas.

Grain demand for swine production

21/10/2018 Go to Evidence

2.5 units of soybean meal and 2 units of corn meal are required for each unit of pork produced in Mato Grosso (Garrett et al.,2018).

2.5 unidades de harina de soja y 2 unidades de harina de maíz son requeridas por cada unidad de carne de cerdo producida en Mato Grosso, Brasil (Garrett et al.,2018).

Garrett, R.D., Koh, I., Lambin, E.F., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Kastens, J.H., & Brown, J.C. (2018). Intensification in agriculture-forest frontiers: Land use responses to development and conservation policies in Brazil. Global Environmental Change, 53, 233-243.

% on-farm consumption of biofortified cassava 2015

03/01/2017 Go to Evidence

75% of all biofortified harvested roots were consumed on-farm in 2015, according to HarvestPlus estimates (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).

75% de todas las raíces biofortificadas cosechadas fueron consumidas en finca en 2015, según estimaciones de HarvestPlus (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).

Bouis, H.E., & Saltzman, A. (2017). Improving nutrition through biofortification: A review of evidence from HarvestPlus, 2003 through 2016. Global Food Security, 12, 49-58.