Mission of the ICFAM Intergovernmental Organization

The ICFAM International Anti Famine Strategy IAFS is an innovative campaign deemed to mitigate the next devastating famines and droughts at regional and sub-regional areas especially in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

According to FAO and UNICEF data we are facing the biggest incoming food crisis of this century since we are losing a great amount of agricultural produce every year, due to:

  1. exponential growth of energy costs, also for agricultural traction and processing;
  2. unexpected increased growth of fertilizer and pesticide costs at global level;
  3. decrease of rainfall in Least Developed Countries, due to climate change.

The current Horn of Africa famine, affecting especially Somalia and the next incumbent Sub Saharan droughts and dryness are leading to higher exposure to further food crisis and malnutrition, in first instance due to lack of local produce, secondly to the reduction of imported crops at an affordable price.

It will cause, according to ICFAM projections the premature death of many people in the next four years, as victims of this massive agricultural retrocession.

This imminent and inhuman scenario can be stopped or at least strongly mitigated through the yield of hyper productive crops, in addition to conventional agricultural produce, which is the basic concept of the ICFAM International Ante Famine Strategy for Nutrition for All.

The Strategy is based in fact on the use of the following hyper-productive crops;

  1. Spirulina Platensis (50 tons /per hectare/per year)
  2. various hyper productive crops as Chlorella, Lupins, etc.
  3. innovative water saving and purification techniques.

With ICAFM productive Centres in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe it will be possible to attain the size of some 10.000 hectares for every Centre, with the cumulative average quantity of 10000 tons /per hectare/per year of hyper productive crops, deemed to be gathered and distributed to the unserved poor by Governments, NGOs, Civil Society organization and volunteers worldwide with a remarkable life-saving effect and impulse and divulgate the use of these cultivations at global level.

This initiative can build resilience and famine reduction anticipating next world hunger and save million lives a year

Please join ICFAM in this Worldwide effort as donor, partner or volunteer by contacting the ICFAM Secretariat