In a world where nearly 20 people are forcibly displaced every minute, the work of all of us is more important than ever before.
Armed conflicts, environmental disasters and human rights violations around the world have resulted in an unprecedented humanitarian crisis on our planet, with the U.N. Refugee Agency estimating more than 110 million people today who have been displaced from their homes as refugees, internally displaced peoples or asylum seekers. At no point in history have this many people been displaced at one time—and all of them need to be fed every day. It is our duty as global citizens to do all that we can to help.
AGT wanted to use our resources and our logistical advantage to do all that we could to help. In 2016, we partnered with the U.N. World Food Programme and International Red Cross-Red Crescent to create a program using AGT’s food production facilities in Türkiye. The program uses AGT’s superior logistics and supply chain management power to produce complete food parcels for these organizations that can be easily distributed to people in need.
Each of these parcels has all the staples of your kitchen: pulses, pasta, rice, oil, flour, vegetables, everything a family needs all packed together, using as many AGT products as possible to save costs.
Since AGT started the program, we’ve put together more than 4.5 million of these boxes, providing over 700 million meals to people in need. Not only that, the program has saved these organizations over 18 million dollars through efficient procurement and distribution and minimizing product losses.
Saskatchewan’s lentils, peas, beans, and durum wheat are going directly to help refugees, while also creating opportunities for farmers and their communities back home.
We are the first stop on the protein highway that’s taking Canadian pulses from producer to the world, contributing to food security and food availability for the future.