Strategy 2017 – 2020 Global Programme Food Security
By inducing change in public and institutional policies and regulatory frameworks, private standards and practices in food security and nutrition, promoting innovations in favour of smallholders families, facilitating institutional learning and awareness raising, and through its efforts to increase the coherence and effectiveness of Switzerland's foreign policy, the GPFS contributes to a world free of hunger and malnutrition in which smallholder rural and (peri-)urban farmers, women and men equally, produce healthy and nutritious food accessible to all while improving their income and safeguarding the environment.
In the Dispatch 2017–2020 of the Federal Council, in addition to targeting the different forms of poverty, discrimination, exclusion and vulnerability, the mandate to help reduce global risks in the field of sustainable agriculture, food security and nutrition is outlined. Making reference to the Agenda 2030 as a major orientation framework and in particular to SDG 2, the mandate in the theme food security and nutrition includes: (i) support research and development in agriculture; (ii) implement international frameworks for land use rights and land tenure; (iii) improve access to healthy food; (iv) support seed systems; (v) promote sustainable growth of private and financial sector development and services targeted at smallholder farmers; (vi) increase efforts in biodiversity conservation, including increasing agrobiodiversity; (vii) combat desertification, land degradation and drought. Engaging for systemic change towards more equality between men and women, as well as adhering to principles of good governance and fighting against corruption are to be respected in all projects. Furthermore, the Federal Council insists on striving for more policy coherence for development.
