Farm size

62.7% of farms in LAC have five hectares or less of total area, while only 4.5% have more than 100 hectares (FAO and UNDP, 2025).

FAO y PNUD (2025)

FAO y PNUD. 2025. Caracterización de la agricultura familiar en América Latina y el Caribe: Desafíos, evidencia y perspectivas. Santiago, FAO.

Agricultural censuses

Of the 33 countries in LAC, only three have an agricultural census produced in the last 5 years (FAO and UNDP, 2025)

FAO y PNUD (2025)

FAO y PNUD. 2025. Caracterización de la agricultura familiar en América Latina y el Caribe: Desafíos, evidencia y perspectivas. Santiago, FAO.

Family farming operations

More than 15% of family farming farms in LAC exceed 20 hectares (FAO and UNDP, 2025).

FAO y PNUD (2025)

FAO y PNUD. 2025. Caracterización de la agricultura familiar en América Latina y el Caribe: Desafíos, evidencia y perspectivas. Santiago, FAO.

Growth in coffee production

Coffee production has increased 75% since 1990 due to the growth of global wealth (EOM, 2024).

EOM (2024)

EOM (2024). El comercio de café en el mundo

Coffee consumption

Coffee consumption grows between 2% and 2.5% annually (EOM, 2024).

EOM (2024)

EOM (2024). El comercio de café en el mundo

Sanitation services

More than half of the world's population lacks adequate sanitation services (WRI, 2025).

WRI (2025)

WRI (2025). Thinking Beyond the Borehole: Safe Water Supplies Begin with Healthy Watersheds

Access to drinking water

One in three people in the world, or more than 2.2 billion, still lack access to safe drinking wáter (WRI, 2025).

WRI (2025)

WRI (2025). Thinking Beyond the Borehole: Safe Water Supplies Begin with Healthy Watersheds.

Evidence detail

Análisis Participativo

WFP Annual Investments

USD 23.4 million was the annual average that WFP executed during the decade 2013-2022 in food purchases, logistics services and monetary transfers (Namdar and Saa, 2024).

Namdar y Saa (2024)

M. Namdar y C. Saa, “Las compras locales de alimentos como posible factor de desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe. Etapa 2: las compras inclusivas”, Documentos de Proyectos (LC/TS.2024/79), Santiago, Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), 2024.

Economic growth in decline

0.9% was the average annual growth rate of Latin America and the Caribbean between 2015 and 2024, less than half of the 2.0% recorded during the lost decade of the 1980s (ECLAC, 2024).

CEPAL (2024)

Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Panorama Social de América Latina y el Caribe, 2024 (LC/PUB.2024/21-P), Santiago, 2024.