G/AG/N/CAN/130  
 
9 October  2019 
(19-6526) Page: 1/5 
Committee on Agriculture  Original: English/French  
 
NOTIFICATION  
The following submission, dated  16 September  2019, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Canada . The notification concerns actions taken within the framework of the Decision 
on Measures Concerning the Possible Negative Effects of the Reform Programme on Least -Developed 
and Net Food -Importing Developing Countries ( Table NF:1 ) during the calendar  year 2017 . 
 
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Note that with the entering into force of the Food Assistance Convention on 1 January  2013, Canada 
reports Food Assistance Operations relevant to the NFIDC decision based on a calendar year basis. 
Data from the IDRC are reported on a fiscal -year basis.  
 
 
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  Table NF:1  
NOTIFICATION UNDER A RTICLE 16.2 OF THE A GREEMENT: MONITORING  OF THE  
FOLLOW -UP TO THE DEC ISION ON MEASURES CO NCERNING THE POSSIBL E 
NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF THE REFORM PROGRAMME  ON LEAST -DEVELOPED  
AND NET FOOD -IMPORTING DEVEL OPING COUNTRIES:  
CANADA  
REPORTING PERIOD:  CALENDAR YEAR  2017 
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1  QUANTITY OF FOOD AID PROVIDED TO LEAST -DEVELOPED AND NET FOO D-IMPORTI NG 
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES  
  
As a signatory to the 2013 Food Assistance Convention (FAC), Canada established a minimum annual 
food assistance level of CAD  250 million. Total food assistance reported under the FAC exceeded 
that target, with more than CAD  361.8 million disbursed. Approximately CAD  239 million went 
to NFIDCs and LDCs.  
 
Food assistance incorporates a mix of tools, including provision of eligible products, cash, vouchers, 
nutritional interventions, and livelihood protection in emergency and early recovery situations. 
Consistent with FAC Requirements, all of Canada’s food assistance is expressed in value terms.  
Table A - Canadian Food Assistance to LDCs and NFIDCs 20171 
Country  Value 
Disbursed  
CAD Food Assistance Partner(s)  
Africa      
Burkina Faso   6,710,623  Nutrition International, World Food Program (WFP)  
Burundi   700,935  WFP  
Central African Republic   6,392,985  Action Against Hunger, Concern Worldwide, 
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Plan 
International, WFP  
Chad   5,525,545  CARE Canada, ICRC, Oxfam -Quebec, WFP  
Congo, Dem Rep.   8,260,364  Action Against Hunger, ICRC, Oxfam -Québec, Save 
the Chi ldren, UNICEF, , Food and Agriculture 
Organization (FAO), WFP   
Djibouti   443,925  WFP  
Ethiopia   13,056,542  Action Against Hunger , CARE Canada, Concern 
Worldwide, Nutrition International, Oxfam -Canada, 
WFP  
Eritrea   582,400  Development and Peace  
Mali   4,328,899  Development and Peace, ICRC, Oxfam -Quebec, WFP  
Niger   9,231,914  Action Against Hunger , CARE, ICRC, SOS Children’s 
Village, FAO, Nutrition International, WFP  
Rwanda   560,748  WFP  
Somalia   14,025,785  Action Against Hunger , CARE Canada, ICRC, Save the 
Children, UNICEF, World Vision Canada, FAO, WFP  
South Sudan   23,652,859  ICRC, UNICEF, WFP, World Vision Canada  
Sudan   5,132,385  CARE Canada, Oxfam -Canada, WFP  
Tanzania, United Rep. of    1,142,576  Oxfam -Canada, WFP  
Uganda   6,870,883  Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR), Samaritan's 
Purse Canada, WFP  
Africa LDCs    78,807,674    
Kenya   5,821,650  Nutrition International, WFP  
Senegal   2,083,333  Nutrition International  
Africa NFIDCs    7,904,983    
Total Africa LDCs and NFIDCs   86,712,657    
Americas      
Haiti   11,601,567  Centre for International Studies and Cooperation 
(CECI), FAO, UNICEF, WFP  
Americas LDC    11,601,567    
Cuba   233,645  WFP  
Dominica   233,084  WFP  G/AG/N/CAN/130  
 
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  Country  Value 
Disbursed  
CAD Food Assistance Partner(s)  
Honduras   1,121,495  WFP  
Americas NFIDCs    1,588,224    
Total Americas LDCs and 
NFIDCs   13,189,791    
Asia and Pacific      
Afghanistan   6,754,918  Action Against Hunger, CARE Canada, ICRC, Nutrition 
International, WFP  
Bangladesh   5,364,894   ICRC, Nutrition International, WFP  
Myanmar   1,312,994  The Adventist Development Relief Agency (ADRA), 
ICRC, WFP  
Asia and Pacific LDCs    13,432,806  Nutrition International  
Nepal  2,083,333  Nutrition International  
Pakistan   3,253,719  CARE Canada, ICRC, UNICEF, WFP  
Asia and Pacific NFIDCs    7,420,385    
Total Asia and Pacific LDCs 
and NFIDCs    20,853,191    
Europe, Middle East and 
Maghreb      
Mauritania   467,290  WFP  
Yemen   21,517,547  Action Against Hunger, CARE Canada, ICRC, Islamic 
Relief, Mercy Corps, Save the Children, WFP  
Europe, Middle East and 
Maghreb LDCs    21,984,837    
Jordan   9,624,438  ICRC, WFP  
Europe, Middle East and 
Maghreb NFIDCs    9,624,438    
Total Europe, Middle East and 
Maghreb DCs, LDCs and 
NFIDCs    31,609,275    
Global support2  86,185,170  Canadian Foodgrains Bank, FAO, Nutrition 
International, WFP  
Total    238,550,084    
     
Note:  Monetary figures include commodity, transportation and operational costs.  
1 Data for the purposes of this notification were gathered for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) as 
recognised by the United Nations and published by the United Nations Office of the High 
Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small 
Island Developing States ( http://unohrlls.org/about -un-ohrlls/ ) and the Development Assistance 
Committee of the OECD plus the Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs outlined in 
G/AG/5/Rev.10 (available at: http://docsonline.wto.org ). 
2 This value represents the unear marked long term institutional support provided to WFP, the 
Canadian Foodgrains Bank and Nutrition international for activities including voucher transfers, cash 
transfers and provision of in -kind food assistance. It also includes support to the WFP’s Imme diate 
Response account. Regional and country specific recipient information is not available.  
 
 
2  INDICATION OF THE PR OPORTION IN FULLY GR ANT FORM OR APPROPRI ATE 
CONCESSIONAL TERMS  
  
All Canadian food assistance is provided in fully grant form. In 2008, Cana da fully untied its food 
assistance budget, opening up 100% of its food assistance budget to international procurement and 
supporting the purchase of food in developing countries.  
 
 
3  TECHNICAL AND FINANC IAL ASSISTANCE UNDER  PARAGRAPH 3(III) OF  THE DECISION  
  
In 2013, the Canadian International Development Agency and the then Department of Foreign Affairs 
and International Trade amalgamated into the new Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and 
Development, which has subsequently become Global Affairs Canada (GAC). The department is the 
main coordinator of Canada’s food assistance.  
 
In 2017, Canada provided humanitarian assistance funding, including for food assistance, to 
51 implementing partners to help meet the needs of communities affected by natural disasters, G/AG/N/CAN/130  
 
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  conflict and complex emergencies in 57 countries. Canada’s humanitarian food assistance funding 
was distributed through 24 implementing partners to benefit populatio ns in 41 countries and regions.  
 
In 2017, Canada made significant efforts to improve the gender -responsiveness of its humanitarian 
action. Women and girls have an important role related to food security and nutrition. It is necessary 
to ensure food assist ance meets their distinct needs and that they have the opportunity to be 
included in decisions that affect them. The key responses highlighted in this report include those to 
help people affected by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, as well as to conflict areas i ncluding Myanmar 
and Bangladesh to address the Rohingya Refugee Crisis, South Sudan, Syria, Iraq and Yemen.  
 
Long-term support of CAD  50 million  over five years to WFP for school feeding programming in 
conflict areas continued for protracted humanitarian contexts in the Democratic Republic of the 
Congo, Niger, Syria and Lebanon. The gender -sensitive school feeding programmes contribute to 
closing the gaps b etween humanitarian and development activities while providing incentives to 
support education opportunities, particularly for girls, thus contributing to improved gender equality.  
 
Long-term funding also began for an innovative, gender -responsive resilie nce programming in the 
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger and Somalia. This innovative partnership between the Rome 
Based Agencies (The Food and Agriculture Organization, The International Fund for Agricultural 
Development and World Food Programme), a ddressing immediate food needs as well as the root 
causes of hunger, is further discussed below.  
 
In terms of geographical distribution of the food assistance for 2017, almost 50% of Canada’s food 
assistance went to sub -Saharan Africa, 28.5% went to the Mi ddle-East and Northern Africa, 
12.8%  went to Asia, 8.9% went to the Americas and a little less than 0.2% went to the crisis in 
Ukraine. Compared to previous years, sub -Saharan Africa saw a reduction of its share (from 58% in 
2015 and 58.5% in 2016 to 49.6% ) and the Middle -East and North Africa saw the biggest increase 
from 19.6% in 2016 to 28.5% in 2017. Asia’s share is relatively stable as it went from 12.2% in 
2015 to 10.2% in 2016 and back to 12.8% in 2017. With almost CAD  30 million of the Canadian 
response (8.9%) in 2017, the response in the Americas slightly diminished when compared to 2016 
(10.2%,  CAD 35.9 million) but still represents a major relative and absolute increase from the  CAD 
15.5 million (4.8%) of the 2015 contribution .1 
 
THE INTERNATIONAL  DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE (IDRC)  
 
Part of Canada’s foreign affairs and development efforts, the International Development Research 
Centre (IDRC) invests in knowledge, innovation, and solutions to improve lives and livelihoods in 
the developing world.  Bringing together the right partners around opportunities for impact, 
IDRC builds leaders for today and tomorrow and helps drive large scale positive change.  In 
FY 2016/2017 its total budget (including administrative costs) was  CAD 120.7 million. In 
FY 2016/ 2017, IDRC undertook disbursements in the agriculture sector (including agriculture, 
fishery and forestry) totalling  CAD 4.37 million, which represented about 3.6 % of its total allocation.  
 
A review for FY  2016/2017 of IDRC identified some 15 projects in a griculture and related sectors, 
in LDCs and NFIDCs with a value of  CAD 3.91 million (about 89.4 % of all disbursements in 
agriculture); see Table B. 
 
Table B - IDRC Bilateral Programming Disbursements (by Region and Country), for 
Agriculture and Related Sectors (including agriculture, fishery and forestry), to LDCs 
and NFIDCs, FY2016/2017  
Country   Number of 
projects2 Value Disbursed C AD '000  
AFRICA     
Benin   1 38 
Burkina Faso   1 1,454  
Cameroon   2 71 
Ethiopia   3 331 
Ghana   4 116 
Malawi   1 152 
Nigeria   1 71 
                                                
1 More information available in the consolidate Narrative report on Food Assistance by members of the 
Food Assistance Convention – 2017 ( https://www.foodassistanceconvention.org/en/reports.aspx ). 
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  Country   Number of 
projects2 Value Disbursed C AD '000  
Senegal   2 73 
Tanzania   3 173 
Uganda   1 266 
Zambia   1 91 
Zimbabwe   1 156 
Africa LDCs   9 2,992  
Côte d’Ivoire   1 29 
Kenya   6 415 
Africa NFDICs   6 444 
Total Africa LDCs and NFDICs   10 3,438  
AMERICAS     
Bolivi a, Plurinational State of  2 314 
Guatemala   1 -36 
Total Americas LDCs   2 278 
Total Americas LDCs and NFDICs   2 278 
ASIA     
Nepal   1 52 
Total Asia LDCs   1 52 
Sri Lanka   1 29 
Total Asia NFDICs   1 29  
Total Asia LDCs and NFDICs   2 82 
IDRC     
Total IDRC to LDCs   13 3,325  
Total IDRC to NFIDCs   9 585 
GRAND TOTAL IDRC TO LDCs / NFIDCs   15 3,910  
 
 
4  OTHER RELEVANT INFOR MATION WITH RESPECT TO ACTIONS TAKEN WITHIN THE 
FRAMEWORK OF THE DEC ISION  
  
Canada provided its food assistance in 2017 through 25 UN agencies and NGOs.3 The WFP continued 
to receive the majority of Canada’s food assistance funding, amounting to 63% of Canada’s total 
food assistance allocations in 2017. Nutrition International and the Canadian Foodgrains Bank 
respectively  received 15% and 7% of Canada’s co ntribution. The remainder was provided to Action 
Against Hunger, the ICRC and other Canadian and international NGOs.  
 
 
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3 Action Against Hunger, ACTED, The Adventist Development Relief Agency (ADRA) Canada, The 
Canadian Foodgrains, CARE Canada, Centre for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI), Canadian 
Lutheran World relief (CLWR), Concern Worldwide, Development and P eace, The Food and Agriculture 
Organization of the UN (FAO), World Food Program (WFP), ICRC, LEGER Foundation, Islamic Relief, Mercy 
Corps, Nutrition International, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam -Quebec, Plan International Canada, Samaritan’s Purse, 
Save the Children  Canada, SOS Children's Village, UNICEF World Vision Canada.