Traduction de «food goals » (Anglais → Français) :

having regard to the United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development and the outcome document adopted by the General Assembly on 25 September 2015, entitled ‘Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’, and in particular to Goal 2 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out therein, namely to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

The National Farmers Union recommends that the Canadian federal government work with farmers, rural residents, and all citizens to establish a food production, marketing, distribution, and trade system in Canada and around the world that would ensure that all people have access to sufficient nutritious and safe food; that the means of producing that food remain in the hands of peasants, small and medium-sized farms, and indigenous people; that food producers receive a fair and adequate return for their work; that wealth created in rural areas foster the security and prosperity of rural communities; that agricultural policies and prac ...[+++]tices protect and enhance the natural environment; that every country have the right to adopt all necessary measures to ensure the preceding goals; and that the international food trade be subservient to these preceding goals.

In international trade, we know that with the Security and Prosperity Partnership, the agriculture and agri-food goal is not to feed the population but to be productive, make money, export, and increase the trade balance as much as possible—in other words, the goal is to compete with other countries but not necessarily by applying the same rules they do.

Already Canada has about 3.3% of the world's agri-food trade, and the Canadian Agri-Food Marketing Council, or CAMC, which is made up of agriculture and agri-food industry representatives, has set a goal to increase that to 4% by the year 2005.

I can only urge the committee to try to address those kinds of issues, encouraging CIDA to alter its mandate appropriately, to encourage departments to work together, so there is a way of actually finding a way to deal with micro-credit as well as food insecurity issues all at the same time, and when we do send our officials off to international meetings they are all singing from the same songbook, their goals are the same, we develop some serious and consistent goals for Canada in food security, and everybody tries to work towards th ...[+++]at goal and sees it as the base.

In fact our provincial government set a legislated goal within the Environmental Goals and Sustainable Prosperity Act that, by 2020, 20 per cent of food bought by Nova Scotians be locally produced.