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
ACRA
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