Increasing food security : Accroître la sécurité alimentaire : la Stratégie de l'ACDI sur la sécurité alimentaire

By building upon past successes in sustainable agricultural development, in food aid and nutrition, and in research and development, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) will increase food security in developing countries by meeting basic needs, finding sustainable solutions, and encouraging innovation. [...] The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations ( ) defines food security as existing when people have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and enable an active and healthy life. [...] The major long-term challenge to global food security will be to meet the increased demand and changing diets of the world’s rapidly increasing population, the majority of whom will be children and youth. [...] Going forward, Canada’s development assistance in food security will focus on: • increasing the availability of food by sustainably increasing agricultural production and productivity; • improving access to food by meeting immediate food needs and addressing longer-term accessibility through sustainable livelihoods; • increasing availability and access to quality nutritious food by diversifying di [...] Paths to Action CIDA’s food security efforts will be using three paths: • sustainable agricultural development to build the capacity of small-scale farmers, agriculture-related organizations, and governments and to support national and regional agricultural and food security strategies; • food aid and nutrition to provide more flexible, predictable, and needs- based funding to meet the emergency a