Translation of "Agri-food system " (English → French) :

24. Calls on the EU to support both the development of healthy agricultural production and rural development in the region, as part of the fight against poverty, which is a persistent evil in the countryside, and in order to strengthen the stabilisation process; stresses, to this end, the importance of institutional and infrastructural improvements (in such fields as irrigation, handling, storage, packaging, transport, marketing systems and access to services), in addition to technological improvements, and also the significance of education and training programmes, especially for women and in situations where producers are poorly organised and civil society is weak, given that these factors also slow down the development of an ...[+++]efficient agri-food system; emphasises the role of extension services in facilitating the diffusion of knowledge; stresses that global environmental and climate change concerns should determine support for the promotion of sustainable uses of natural resources and energy and compatible methods of production; stresses that the diversification of production, in order to increase resilience during market fluctuations and environmental crises, should be encouraged in the face of increasing global demand for food;

4. Calls on the EU to support both the development of healthy agricultural production and rural development in the region as part of the fight against poverty, a persistent evil in the countryside, and in order to strengthen the stabilisation process; stresses, to that end, the importance of institutional and infrastructural (e.g. irrigation, handling, storage, packaging, transportation, marketing systems and access to services) improvements, in addition to the technological ones, and the significance of education and training programmes, especially for women, as well as situations where producers are poorly organised and civil society is weak, which also slow down the development of an efficient agri-food system ...[+++]; emphasises the role of extension services in facilitating diffusion of knowledge; underlines that global environmental and climate change concerns should direct the support to the promotion of sustainable uses of natural resources and energy, and compatible methods of production; stresses that diversification of production to increase resilience during market fluctuations and environmental crises should be encouraged in the face of increasing global demand for food;

24. Calls on the EU to support both the development of healthy agricultural production and rural development in the region, as part of the fight against poverty, which is a persistent evil in the countryside, and in order to strengthen the stabilisation process; stresses, to this end, the importance of institutional and infrastructural improvements (in such fields as irrigation, handling, storage, packaging, transport, marketing systems and access to services), in addition to technological improvements, and also the significance of education and training programmes, especially for women and in situations where producers are poorly organised and civil society is weak, given that these factors also slow down the development of an ...[+++]efficient agri-food system; emphasises the role of extension services in facilitating the diffusion of knowledge; stresses that global environmental and climate change concerns should determine support for the promotion of sustainable uses of natural resources and energy and compatible methods of production; stresses that the diversification of production, in order to increase resilience during market fluctuations and environmental crises, should be encouraged in the face of increasing global demand for food;

As the world's third largest agri-food exporter, Canada's agri- food system and the farmers who contribute to it benefit immeasurably from the important work of legislators and decision-makers such as the honourable senator from Saskatchewan, people who have hands-on experience with the subject matter that they discuss, analyze and legislate upon.

After all, Canada's agriculture and agri-food system accounts for some 8.3 per cent of our gross domestic product and $112 billion in annual retail and food service sales.

The first concerns the agri-food system with a view to achieving food security and over and above that to boost exports of products in which Haiti has a comparative advantage.