As Latin America reaches a key milestone in 2025, its agri-food systems are being recognized globally for driving economic ...

Exports of agricultural food products surpassed 9.6 trillion ... beverage and processed rice exports all reaching new highs. Exports to Latin America, and particularly Mexico, saw the steepest ...

In 2023, they reached an all-time high of $202 billion. Latin America and the Caribbean are a growing U.S. supplier region of agri-food products, with exports expected to grow at a compound annual ...

The value of exports from Latin America and the Caribbean contracted by 2.2% in 2023 after having grown by 17.0% in 2022, a new release from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) reports.

According to Bebber, Colombia and Costa Rica are particularly vulnerable, which is concerning for the export industry to Europe and North America. The only regions ... Additionally, as a staple food ...

The theory of Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI), and the high tariffs that went with it, brought about economic dysfunction and stagnation to the region.

However the region’s participation in global agricultural exports has also grown, although to a lesser extent: from 10% in 2000 to 13% in 2016. In 2017 Latin America and the Caribbean will have ...