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A 1% increase in productivity growth is equivalent to a 1% decrease in the cost of producing, storing and selling one unit of a product (GAP, 2023)
Un aumento del 1% en el crecimiento de la productividad equivale a una disminución del 1% en el coste de producir, almacenar y vender una unidad de un producto (GAP, 2023)
Agnew, J. & Hendery, S. (2023). T. Thompson (Ed.) 2023 Global Agricultural Productivity Report: Every Farmer, Every Tool. Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1338-informe-gap-2023-sobre-la-productividad-agricola-mundial
0.587 percentage points was the average contribution of land to economic growth in the Latin American countries studied between 1825-2015 (Zaman, 2024).
0.587 puntos porcentuales fue la contribución promedio de la tierra al crecimiento económico en los países latinoamericanos estudiados entre 1825-2015 (Zaman, 2024).
Miethy, Zaman. (2024). Total factor productivity, transitional dynamics and endogenous growth accounting for Latin America: Evidence from two centuries' data. Economics of transition and institutional change, doi: 10.1111/ecot.12411
11.6% and 68.4% is the effect of SPS measures in Guatemala on commodities, and their simplification could reduce extreme urban poverty (Kelleher & Reyes, 2014).
Kelleher & Reyes (2014)
Kelleher, S; Reyes, J-D. 2014. Technical Measures to Trade in Central America: Incidence, Price Effects, and Consumer Welfare (en línea). s.l., The World Bank, (Policy Research Working Papers). 38 p. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-6857.
18% of global emissions from agriculture are expected to be in LAC by 2033, exceeding its share in total production (OECD and FAO, 2024).
(OCDE y FAO, 2024)
OECD/FAO (2024), OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2024-2033, OECD Publishing, Paris/FAO, Rome, https://doi.org/10.1787/4c5d2cfb-en.
4.2 times the global agricultural production volume increased between 1961 and 2020, while the world population grew 2.6 times during the same period (USDA, 2024).
USDA, 2024
USDA.2024. World Agricultural Production, Resource Use, and Productivity, 1961–2020. https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1366-produccion-agricola-mundial,-uso-y-productividad,-1961-2020
More than 200 million workers left agriculture between 2003 and 2020 (USDA, 2024).
USDA, 2024
USDA.2024. World Agricultural Production, Resource Use, and Productivity, 1961–2020. https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1366-produccion-agricola-mundial,-uso-y-productividad,-1961-2020
74% of global cropland was harvested in 1961, while by 2020, this proportion increased to 92% (USDA, 2024).
USDA, 2024
USDA.2024. World Agricultural Production, Resource Use, and Productivity, 1961–2020. https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1366-produccion-agricola-mundial,-uso-y-productividad,-1961-2020
2.7 million metric tons of pesticides were used globally in 2020, up from 1.7 million in 1990, with the largest increase in the Global South, especially in LAC (USDA, 2024).
USDA, 2024
USDA.2024. World Agricultural Production, Resource Use, and Productivity, 1961–2020. https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1366-produccion-agricola-mundial,-uso-y-productividad,-1961-2020
52% of pesticide active ingredients in 2020 were herbicides, followed by fungicides (23%), insecticides (18%) and other products (7%) (USDA, 2024).
USDA, 2024
USDA.2024. World Agricultural Production, Resource Use, and Productivity, 1961–2020. https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1366-produccion-agricola-mundial,-uso-y-productividad,-1961-2020
Of 600 million farms in the world, most are family farms, which has proven to be more successful than collective or cooperative farms (USDA, 2024).
USDA.2024. World Agricultural Production, Resource Use, and Productivity, 1961–2020. https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1366-produccion-agricola-mundial,-uso-y-productividad,-1961-2020
https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1366-produccion-agricola-mundial,-uso-y-productividad,-1961-2020
