Rome – The Meals and Agriculture Group of the United Nations (FAO) has launched as we speak its annual Statistical Yearbook, overlaying newest traits on the earth’s agrifood techniques and highlighting for the primary time the impression of disasters on agriculture and the price and affordability of a nutritious diet.
Drawing on the wealth of knowledge that FAO statisticians produce throughout the Group, this publication provides a synthesis of the main elements at play within the world meals and agricultural panorama. The 2023 version includes well-organized knowledge sectioned into 4 thematic chapters, overlaying the financial significance of agricultural actions; inputs, outputs and elements of manufacturing; implications for meals safety and diet; and agriculture’s impacts on the surroundings.
The Statistical Yearbook is a main device and indispensable reference for policymakers, researchers and analysts, in addition to laypersons up to now, current and future paths of meals and agriculture.
“Well timed, correct and high-quality knowledge and statistics are the cornerstone of strong coverage design, the place choices are based mostly on onerous proof, and monitoring and analysis depend on sturdy statistical techniques.” stated José Rosero Moncayo, Director of FAO’s Statistics Division within the foreword to the publication. “This has develop into all of the extra essential as governments around the globe decide to main sectoral and nationwide improvement plans, in addition to regional and world improvement agendas.”
Main highlights
This yr, the publication highlights the impression of disasters on agriculture and quantifies the magnitude of losses ensuing from these occasions.
Information on the price and affordability of a nutritious diet, which have been launched lately in FAOSTAT, are additionally showcased on this yr’s version, offering a measure of financial entry to nutritious meals and wholesome diets which might be a key hyperlink between meals safety and diet.
One other essential spotlight of this yr’s version is the meals loss proportion. It’s the highest in sub-Saharan Africa (nearly 20 p.c in 2021) and the bottom in Northern America and Europe (9 p.c). Meals losses differ significantly from one area to a different throughout the identical commodity teams and provide chain phases.
Lastly, the publication faucets on the structural traits of the agricultural sector coming from censuses of agriculture that customers can now simply examine throughout nations and census rounds for the primary time.
Key info and figures
- Disasters are estimated to have brought about manufacturing losses in crops and livestock valued at $3.8 trillion between 1991 and 2021, comparable to a mean lack of $123 billion per yr, or 5 p.c of annual world agricultural GDP. Asia has the biggest loss, reflecting its total geographic dimension, adopted by the Americas, Europe, Africa and Oceania. Though Asia has the very best loss in absolute phrases, it has a comparatively small impression given the magnitude of its manufacturing. In distinction, Africa, the Americas and Europe seem extra affected proportionally to their agricultural sector.
- The worldwide estimate of the price of a nutritious diet in 2021 was 3.66 buying energy parity (PPP) {dollars} per individual per day, up 4.3 p.c in contrast with 2020. The price of a nutritious diet elevated by greater than 5 p.c in all areas besides Northern America and Europe between 2020 and 2021, reflecting the rise in meals inflation. Greater than 3.1 billion folks on the earth, or 42 p.c, had been unable to afford a nutritious diet in 2021.
- The worldwide worth added generated by agriculture, forestry and fishing grew by 84 p.c in actual phrases between 2000 and 2021, reaching $3.7 trillion in 2021. Given its dimension, Asia was the principle contributor to world agriculture, forestry and fishing worth added with 65 p.c of the world’s whole in 2021.
- Agriculture employed some 873 million folks in 2021, or 27 p.c of the worldwide workforce, in contrast with 1 027 million or 40 p.c in 2000.
- International use of pesticide went up 62 p.c between 2000 and 2021 with the Americas accounting for half the use in 2021.
- From 2000 to 2021, the manufacturing of main crops grew by 54 p.c reaching 9.5 billion tonnes. 4 crops (sugarcane, maize, wheat and rice) accounted for half the full.
- Cereals had been essentially the most traded commodity by amount in 2021: the Americas and Europe are the biggest exporters and Asia is the biggest importer. With barely lower than one-third of the full, cereals had been the principle group of main crops produced in 2021, adopted by sugar crops (22 p.c), greens and oil crops (12 p.c every).
- Greenhouse gasoline emissions from agrifood techniques grew by 10 p.c between 2000 and 2021. Farm-gate emissions account for practically half of them.
The Statistical Yearbook 2023 is obtainable in a digital model, and as a pocketbook printed version which supplies a fast and simple reference to the principle info and traits.
The Statistical Yearbook is just one of a collection of instruments and statistical publications that FAO supplies to customers. The freely accessible FAOSTAT knowledge platform comprises the biggest statistical database on meals and agriculture on the earth, with roughly 20 000 indicators overlaying greater than 245 nations and territories, and round 2 million views annually.
