SDG 2 - End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

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Actions for SDG 2

Encourage and support local sustainable agriculture and its gastronomic offer ⬇

  • Carry out awareness workshops about the use of local products.
  • Use food produced on lifestock, vegetable and fishing farms close to the gastronomic point of sale
  • Use seasonal products from local farms nearby.
  • Incorporate more local pantry products and mostly organic food. * Buy from suppliers who follow animal and environmentally friendly agricultural policies

Participate in projects that support the creation of healthy and nutritious eating habits ⬇

  • Utilize a safety and control system for the food quality in your company
  • Offer healthy menus to staff members
  • Document all corrective actions related to food security and make long-term changes if necessary
  • Ensure traceability of all food used in the production processes.
  • Provide transparent information about the ingredients and contents of the gastronomic offer Fostering knowledge, experience and data sharing among businesses and other actors, contributing to global data platforms collecting and sharing agricultural information and statistics with all actors along the agricultural value chain including farmers.

Encourage good practices to prevent food waste ⬇

  • Promote good "food handling" practices through workshops.
  • Develop "good practice manuals" so as not to generate food
  • Do not buy more than necessary preferring food that is purchased Fresh, bulk, wholesale and with as little packaging as possible.
  • Plan menus to ensure minimal food waste
  • Correctly recycle food leftovers.
  • Encourage the use of compost
  • Develop mechanisms and incentives to promote the adoption of good food practices and prevent waste
  • Supporting, encouraging and demonstrating the continued viability of small scale farming, sustaining grower communities by developing partnerships with cooperatives and producer organizations supporting many small farmers. For larger businesses, establishing long-term business relationships that support small scale producers.

Ensure respectful use of agricultural land in the environment ⬇

  • Ensure that the products used do not encourage deforestation
  • Work with farmers who use certified fertilizers and are concerned about the care of our land
  • Get food from environmentally sustainable farms that follow agricultural policies for soil maintenance and improvement.
  • Participate in campaigns that aim to care for the fertile lands of our environment
  • Investing in sustainable agricultural technology, intensifying collaboration with academic as well as scientific institutions.
  • Demonstrating support to genetic diversity of seeds, plants and animals and report on company’s contribution to biodiversity.
  • Upholding highest standards of sustainably in sourcing practices, enhancing traceability of commodities and demonstrating transparency in agricultural supply chain.

SDG 2 in Canada

Vulnerable populations (including orthernmost and indigenous communities) are facing food security challenges in Canada ⬇

  • Canada monitors food security through diverse mechanisms. The Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) offers some of the more comprehensive cross-sectional data sets related to health status, health-care utilization and health determinants for the Canadian population at the sub-provincial level. The CCHS also monitors the prevalence of income-related household food insecurity, which, given the strong link between income and food security, makes the CCHS one of Canada’s key tools in monitoring domestic food insecurity.
  • The most recent CCHS data for all provinces and territories suggest that between 2011 and 2012, 91.6% of Canadian households were food secure. Food-secure households are those that gave no indication of any income-related barrier to food access. During that period, however, 8.4% of Canadian households—representing more than 2 million people aged 12 and older—reported experiencing income-related food insecurity. These households were classified as either moderately or severely food insecure.
  • Canada is actively working to identify communities where food insecurity is an issue. Children, racialized communities and Indigenous peoples all experience higher levels of food insecurity on average than the rest of the Canadian population. For example, 1 in 5 Nunavut households report being in a state of severe food insecurity, with adults and/or children reducing their food intake or skipping meals entirely on a regular basis.
  • The Nutrition North Canada (NNC) Program was launched in 2011 to support bringing healthy food to isolated northern communities. NNC works with stores across the North and food suppliers in southern Canada to help make perishable, nutritious food more affordable and more accessible in remote, isolated communities in the North.

Food availability and sustainable resource management ⬇

  • Canada undertakes actions to increase agricultural production by supporting sustainable resource management, investing in the research capacity of stakeholders, encouraging investment in targeted communities and regions, and advancing actions that focus on increasing labour availability.
  • Canada has a number of initiatives designed to support sustainable food production systems and enable the implementation of resilient agricultural practices. These initiatives include research by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and cost-shared programming between federal and provincial/territorial governments that support environmentally beneficial management practices for agricultural landscapes.
  • For example, AAFC’s AgroEcosystem Resilience Strategy guides departmental investments into soil, water, air, climate and biodiversity research to ensure longterm protection of these resources while maximizing the resilience of agricultural lands to future climate scenarios. The Agricultural Clean Technology Strategy guides AAFC investments into developing and promoting technologies, such as precision agriculture, which helps farmers mitigate their impact on the environment. Supporting farmers and protecting farmland are important to the continued growth and sustainability of Canada’s agricultural sector.
  • Canada invests in a variety of measures that aim to address climate change and related hazards. One measure is the development of new crop strains and varieties to resist novel climate-related pests and diseases, as well as strains that are hardier to various climate-relatedstressors.
  • Investments in soil and water management help ensure resilience against weather extremes resulting in too much or too little water. Canada’s Drought Watch initiative, for example, allows farmers to access accurate and up-to-date soil water moisture information and predictive tools to optimally manage their growing and harvesting operations

Collaboration and communication between partners to supportt resilient food production and distribution ⬇

  • Recognizing the vital perspective of Indigenous peoples in the creation of A Food Policy for Canada, the Government of Canada made efforts to ensure Indigenous representation in various forums supporting the development of the Policy and provided targeted support to enable national Indigenous organizations to engage their members in a way that was culturally appropriate.

  • Canadian Agricultural Partnership (CAP) launched on April 1, 2018. CAP is a 5-year, $3 billion federal, provincial and territorial investment in Canada’s agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector. This initiative will help to ensure the sector’s continued innovation, growth and prosperity.

  • Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Crops (CRSC), a federally funded, member-based organization that facilitates crosscommodity collaboration on sustainable agriculture issues and opportunities facing grain sector participants. Composed of grower, industry, customer and environmental organizations, the CRSC is a national, industry-led forum developing and showcasing Canada’s grains sustainability performance

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