Food security, food sovereignty and biodiversity
why food Having access to “nourishing, safe and sufficient food to satisfy the basic nutritional needs� is a human right. Every Nation therefore is obliged to make it accessible, available and guaranteed to its citizens. However, hunger and malnutrition are still today amongst the most serious emergencies that afflict the Planet. Ensuring the right to food for the future generations means ensuring equitable access to the resources needed to produce food (water, land, seeds), a condition that is made increasingly uncertain by climate 34
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change, the degradation of natural systems, the sudden change in the food model and weak sectoral policies.
Project Focus ACRA initiatives are intended to help ensuring food production, access and stability for the most vulnerable populations (farmers and pastoral households) in rural areas, by supporting resilience mechanisms and promoting social protection networks.
Our endeavours are articulated in actions that include initiatives for the safeguard and valorisation of environmental and productive resources and agro-biodiversity, support of agro-ecological production, capacity building in production management, construction of storage facilities and development of virtuous commercial supply chains, in the perspective of an improved quality of the products, strengthening of markets and development of rural entrepreneurship. This is also combined with a specific attention to technological
The challenge we are faced with is to have enough to eat but at innovation, in respect of the value of local knowledge rooted in the traditions of every culture.
how we work
We work towards making food access a right and not a privilege, in the perspective of food sovereignty intended as the capacity to direct ones actions to guarantee food access, in a sustainable and long term vision, for the present
and future generations.
the same time preserve the Earth’s reserves and combine the increase in agricultural production with the sustainability of the solutions proposed. We base our actions in the different projects on the resources of the community, on informal knowledge, on biodiversity and with support to the organizations of producers and consumers, to strengthen their capacity in influencing decisional mechanisms at various territorial government levels.
We work to connect food
security to social protection, especially of the most fragile and vulnerable in rural areas and we strive to guarantee, in sustainable and long lasting terms, the universal right to food in the perspective of food
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Food ongoing projects in 2014
interventi attivi nel 2013
over 1,400 food-activists participated to courses and exchange meetings on how to implement sustainable local food policies in many cities in Europe
honduras - el salvador
bolivia - ecuador
EXPO 2015 per la sicurezza alimentare e nutrizionale delle comunità locali: implementazione di un piano di azione condiviso tra Lombardia e Centro America
Andean pastors: economic space and high-Andean food security weavers
duration
total value
24 months
328,230 ¤*
duration
total value
48 months
499,465 ¤*
bolivia
1,100
Quinoa, the gold of the Andes. An integrated supply chain for food security in Bolivia duration
total value
27 months
335,300 ¤*
Andean farmers received training in agro-ecological techniques aimed at improving the quality of the quinoa production chain in Bolivia
Note: The total value of the projects includes monetary contributions, contributions from volunteers and donations in kind. * Share managed by ACRA as project partner 36
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bolivia Integrated quinoa/camelids agri-food system. Promotion of sustainable community and smallholder agriculture on the Bolivian Highplain duration
total value
18 months
75,615 ¤
Italy, France, Lithuania, Cyprus, United Kingdom, Senegal Hungry for Rights. Global Learning from Local Solutions in Alternative Food Systems duration
total value
36 months
1,217,558 ¤
Italy “Affama lo spreco” (starve waste). Reduction, reuse and recycling of waste associated with food consumption in the municipality of Agrate Brianza duration
total value
15 months
111,118 ¤
80,000 farmers in chad joined the 312 Cereal Banks affiliated with the Federation (FBCG)
chad Cereal banks, an effective model for the development and food security of rural population in Guéra, Ciad duration
total value
36 months
1,550,747 ¤
senegal Milan-Dakar Micro-jardins: Healthy and productive cities duration
total value
24 months
486,578 ¤
chad
chad Sustainable reduction of food insecurity in the population of Guéra within a local development process duration
total value
24 months
507,302 ¤
Accompanying civil society organizations in the Mayo Kebbi East - Mayo Kebbi West regions in the implementation of the Programme for the Development of Natural Resources Management (PADL-GRN) duration
total value
24 months
338,415 ¤
40,000 people in senegal have been involved in programs of urban agriculture, also through the technique of microjardins
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