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Poverty reduction

20/05/2024 Go to Evidence

575 million people will still be in extreme poverty in 2030 if current trends continue, and only one third of countries will reach the target of halving national poverty (UN, 2023).

ONU, 2023

ONU (2023). Informe de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible 2023: Edición especial.

Rural Women in Figures

20/05/2024 Go to Evidence

59 million women live in rural areas in Latin America and the Caribbean, 20 million are part of the economically active population and 4.5 million are agricultural producers (FAO, 2017).

FAO, 2017

FAO. 2017. Mujeres de algodón: roles de género y participación en las cadenas de valor en Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay y Perú. Santiago de Chile

Agricultural sector loans

17/05/2024 Go to Evidence

1.6% reached loans to the agricultural sector in LAC in 2020, before decreasing to 1.37% in 2021 (ECLAC et al., 2024).

CEPAL. et al, 2024

"FAO, IICA, CEPAL y P M A. 2024. Financiamiento para la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición en América Latina y el Caribe. Santiago de Chile. https://doi.org/10.4060/cd0527es"

Eradication of hunger

16/05/2024 Go to Evidence

300 billion per year until 2030 is the estimated cost of transforming agrifood systems and eradicating global hunger and malnutrition (ECLAC et al., 2024).

CEPAL. et al, 2024

"FAO, IICA, CEPAL y P M A. 2024. Financiamiento para la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición en América Latina y el Caribe. Santiago de Chile. https://doi.org/10.4060/cd0527es"