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Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies

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Impact of hurricanes Eta and Iota

17/07/2024 Go to Evidence

16 of 22 departments in Guatemala had severe crop damage from hurricanes Eta and Iota in 2020 (World Bank, 2024).

Banco Mundial, 2024

Banco Mundial. 2024.Estudio de factibilidad: Soluciones de financiamiento y seguro contra riesgos de desastres para agricultores familiares en El Salvador, Honduras y Guatemala. https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1589-estudio-de-factibilidad:-soluciones-de-financiamiento-y-seguro-contra-riesgos-de-desastres-para-agricultores-familiares-en-el-salvador,-honduras-y-guatemala

Tag: Hurricanes
Country: Guatemala
Sector: Sugar, molasses and sugar confectionary Coffee and coffee products Musaceae
Area: Regenerative and Resilient Agriculture

Tensions over the Coffee Landscape

04/03/2024 Go to Evidence

The study identifies contradictions and methodological gaps in research on the Coffee Cultural Landscape, and concludes that its heritage management faces unresolved tensions between institutional discourses and territorial realities (Cruz-Rincón, D. F. , 2024).

Duván Fernando Cruz-Rincón

Universidad del Valle - Facultad de Ciencias de la Administración

Tag: Geopolitics SustainableProductivity
Country: Colombia
Sector: Agrotourism Coffee and coffee products Environment and natural resources
Area: Biodiversity Conservation Agrifood Context
Instrument: Sustainability Standards or Protocols Strategies, plans, policies or guidelines; sectoral or national Studies and diagnoses
Beneficiary: Indigenous communities Rural communities Public institutions Caregivers
Result: Increased knowledge Impact: Improved biodiversity status Promotion of ecosystemic services

Participation in the world coffee supply

10/01/2024 Go to Evidence

More than 60% of the world's coffee supply came from Brazil and Colombia, while the price of Arabica fell due to better harvests (IDB, 2024).

Más del 60% de la oferta mundial del café se concentró en las cosechas de Brasil y Colombia, mercado que recibió una contracción del precio de la variedad Arábica como respuesta a la mejora en las cosechas (BID, 2024)

BID, 2024. Estimaciones de las tendencias comerciales. América Latina y el Caribe. Edición 2024

Country: Brazil Colombia
Sector: Coffee and coffee products
Area: International Trade and Regional Integration
Result: Improved commercial competitiveness

Distribution of cultivated land area in 2021

23/12/2023 Go to Evidence

35 % of the cultivated area in Latin America and the Caribbean is devoted to soybeans, followed by corn (22.7 %), sugar (7.5 %), wheat (6.2 %), beans (3.6 %), coffee (3 %), rice (2.6 %), other soybeans (2.1 %) and other crops (17 %) (FAO, 2023).

FAO (2023), FAOSTAT:Fertilizers by Nutrient. En: FAO. Citado 13 de abril de 2023. https://www.fao.org/faostat/es/# data/RFN

Country: Latin America and the Caribbean (aggregate)
Sector: Agri-Food (total) Cereals and cereal products Sugar, molasses and sugar confectionary Coffee and coffee products
Area: International Trade and Regional Integration Family Farming
Result: Soil health

Agroforestry systems

01/12/2023 Go to Evidence

3.73% of Honduras' land cover in 2021 corresponded to agroforestry systems in coffee and fruit plantations, with 419,902 hectares (Secretaría de Agricultura y Ganadería de Honduras, 2023).

Secretaría de Agricultura y Ganadería de Honduras (2023). Política de Estado del Sector Agroalimentario de Honduras (PESAH) 2023-2043.

Instituto de Conservación Forestal. (2021). Anuario Estadístico Forestal de Honduras.

Country: Honduras
Sector: Agriculture, forestry, and fishery products Coffee and coffee products Fruit and vegetables, includes roots and tubers
Area: Territorial Management
Result: Transition to sustainable land use

Coffee

10/08/2023 Go to Evidence

70% of the world's coffee is produced on farms of <5 hectares.

El 70% del café mundial se produce en granjas de <5 hectáreas.

Siles P, Cerdán CR and Staver C (2022) Smallholder Coffee in the Global Economy—A Framework to Explore Transformation Alternatives of Traditional Agroforestry for Greater Economic, Ecological, and Livelihood Viability. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 6:808207. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2022.808207

Country: World (aggregate)
Sector: Agriculture, forestry, and fishery products Coffee and coffee products
Area: Family Farming
Instrument: Studies and diagnoses
Result: Information generation

Carbon footprint of coffee in Costa Rica and Nicar

31/12/2021 Go to Evidence

0.26 to 0.67 kg CO₂e is the carbon footprint for each kilogram of fresh coffee beans in conventional systems in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, while in organic management systems (agroforestry) the footprint is lower, between 0.12 and 0.52 kg CO₂e. (IICA, 2021)

IICA, 2021

IICA.2021. Hojas de información: buenas prácticas para una agricultura climáticamente inteligente. https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1797-hojas-de-informacion:-buenas-practicas-para-una-agricultura-climaticamente-inteligente

Country: Costa Rica Nicaragua
Sector: Coffee and coffee products
Area: Regenerative and Resilient Agriculture

Carbon footprint of coffee in polycultures vs. mon

31/12/2021 Go to Evidence

6.2 to 7.3 kg CO₂e per kilogram is the carbon footprint of coffee in polycultures, compared to 9 to 10.8 kg CO₂e in monocultures (IICA, 2021).

6.2 a 7.3 kg CO₂e kg-1 de café pergamino es la huella de carbono del café en policultivos, frente a 9 a 10.8 kg CO₂e a la de monocultivos en México, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador y Colombia (IICA, 2021).

IICA.2021. Hojas de información: buenas prácticas para una agricultura climáticamente inteligente. https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1797-hojas-de-informacion:-buenas-practicas-para-una-agricultura-climaticamente-inteligente

Tag: AgroecologicalSystems
Country: El Salvador El Salvador El Salvador El Salvador El Salvador
Sector: Coffee and coffee products
Area: Regenerative and Resilient Agriculture