Big Facts on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

Latin America

Food inequality in Latin America: 8% of the pop still undernourished. #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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[FAO] Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2013. The state of food insecurity in the world 2013: The multiple dimensions of food security. Rome: FAO. (Available from http://www.fao.org/publications/sofi/en/)

Latin America's population will peak in next 40 years then decline slightly. #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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[UN-DESA] United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. 2013. World Population prospects, the 2012 revision, highlights and advance tables. Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. New York. (Available from http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Documentation/pdf/WPP2010_Highlights.pdf)

Meat and dairy consumption in Latin Americans will increase by 25% by 2050. #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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Alexandratos N, Bruinsma J. 2012. World agriculture towards 2030/2050: the 2012 revision. ESA Working Paper 12-03. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). (Available from http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/ap106e/ap106e.pdf)

In Latin America 60% of food is wasted during production and post-harvest. #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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[FAO] Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2013b. Food wastage footprint. Impacts on natural resources. Summary Report. Rome, Italy: FAO (Available from http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3347e/i3347e.pdf)

Which Latin American country has been hardest hit by extreme weather events? #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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Handmer, J., Y. Honda, Z.W. Kundzewicz, N. Arnell, G. Benito, J. Hatfield, I.F. Mohamed, P. Peduzzi, S. Wu, B. Sherstyukov, K. Takahashi, and Z. Yan, 2012: Changes in impacts of climate extremes: human systems and ecosystems. In: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation [Field, C.B., V. Barros, T.F. Stocker, D. Qin, D.J. Dokken, K.L. Ebi, M.D. Mastrandrea, K.J. Mach, G.-K. Plattner, S.K. Allen, M. Tignor, and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, and New York, NY, USA, pp. 231-290. (Available from https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/special-reports/srex/SREX_Full_Report.pdf)

Areas for growing cassava in Latin America will shift as climate changes. #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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Shyam Singh Yadav, Robert Redden, Jerry L. Hatfield, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Anthony J. W. Hall (eds.). 2011. Crop Adaptation to Climate Change. Sussex, UK: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.

Latin American agriculture emits 21% more GHGs more than ag sector in other regions #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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World Bank. 2013. World Development Indicators: Trends in greenhouse gas emissions. http://wdi.worldbank.org/table/3.9.

How will climate change impact Latin American coffee? Get the #BigFacts @cgiarclimate

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[UN-ECLAC] United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. 2013. Databases and statistical publications. http://estadisticas.cepal.org/cepalstat/WEB_CEPALSTAT/estadisticasIndicadores.asp?idioma=i