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Between 70 % and 100 % was the increase in the volume of soybean, corn and wheat exports in Argentina (ECLAC, 2024).
CEPAL (2024)
CEPAL, Perspectivas del Comercio Internacional de América Latina y el Caribe, 2024 (LC/PUB.2024/16-P), Santiago, 2024
41 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean suffered from hunger in 2023 (ECLAC, 2024).
CEPAL (2024)
CEPAL, Perspectivas del Comercio Internacional de América Latina y el Caribe, 2024 (LC/PUB.2024/16-P), Santiago, 2024
The 17.2% prevalence of hunger in the Caribbean is three times higher than the figures recorded in South America (5.2%) and in Central America and Mexico (5.8%) (ECLAC, 2024).
CEPAL (2024)
CEPAL, Perspectivas del Comercio Internacional de América Latina y el Caribe, 2024 (LC/PUB.2024/16-P), Santiago, 2024
15.5% was the average of global food exports represented by LAC between 2020 and 2022 (ECLAC, 2024).
CEPAL (2024)
CEPAL, Perspectivas del Comercio Internacional de América Latina y el Caribe, 2024 (LC/PUB.2024/16-P), Santiago, 2024
50-60% will increase global food demand in the coming decades (World Bank, 2024).
Banco Mundial (23 de octubre de 2024). El sector alimentario como motor de crecimiento y empleo. Reuniones Anuales de 2024.
3.2 million deaths annually, nearly half of all air pollution deaths, are caused by indoor pollution from open fires or cooking and heating stoves.
Apoyar la transformación de los sistemas alimentarios hacia la sostenibilidad y resiliencia. Libro Blanco. PNUD
Household air pollution. (2023, diciembre). Organización Mundial de la Salud. https://www.who.int/news room/factsheets/detail/household-air-pollution-and-health
According to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report 2023 (SOFI 2023) global hunger in 2022 affects 9.2 percent of the world population – between 691 and 783 million people – and a total of 2.4 billion people experience moderate or severe food insecurity.
Apoyar la transformación de los sistemas alimentarios hacia la sostenibilidad y resiliencia. Libro Blanco. PNUD
State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report 2023 (SOFI 2023)
2.4 billion people in rural communities rely on biomass, such as charcoal, straw or firewood, for cooking due to lack of access to clean solutions (OECD, 2024).
Apoyar la transformación de los sistemas alimentarios hacia la sostenibilidad y resiliencia. Libro Blanco. PNUD
Household air pollution. (2023, diciembre). OrganizaciónMundial de la Salud. https://www.who.int/news room/factsheets/detail/household-air-pollution-and-health
258 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2022, in the 10 countries most affected by fragile and crisis contexts (OECD, 2022).
Apoyar la transformación de los sistemas alimentarios hacia la sostenibilidad y resiliencia. Libro Blanco. PNUD
OCDE. (2022). States of Fragility 2022. OECD Publishing, Paris. Food Security Information Network & Global Network Against Food Crises. (2023). Global Report on Food Crises 2023: Joint analysis for better decisions. https://www.fsinplatform.org/sites/default/files/resources/files/GRFC2023-compressed.pdf
More than 3.1 billion people, 42% of the world's population, could not afford a healthy diet in 2021, according to the SOFI 2023 report.
Apoyar la transformación de los sistemas alimentarios hacia la sostenibilidad y resiliencia. Libro Blanco. PNUD
State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report 2023 (SOFI 2023)