Community | November 18, 2009 | 2 comments

U.S. groups call for leadership from Obama administration at World Food Summit

source: http://www.iatp.org/iatp/press.cfm?refID=106960

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JanforGore
I agree. This is not the time for empty gestures and promises, but concrete actions regarding investment in sustainable agriculture for the health of our planet and the people of our world, including the U.S.
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2 comments // U.S. groups call for leadership from Obama administration at World Food Summit

  • JohnA
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      JohnA  

    • If you want anything besides empty gestures and promises, Obama is definately not the one you should be calling for.

    • 2 years ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • Excerpt:
      As the World Summit on Food Security begins next week in Rome, U.S. civil society organizations expressed concern with the Obama administration's support for increasing intensive, large-scale agriculture production and trade expansion as a solution to rising global hunger-failed approaches that have actually contributed to the global food crisis.

      In a letter signed by 23 U.S. organizations, the groups thanked the administration for its efforts to increase foreign assistance and to better coordinate government agencies in responding to the global food crisis. But they questioned why the administration has not recognized the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology (IAASTD) report, supported by over 50 countries, "which represents a global consensus about what course international investment in agriculture should take to meet social and environmental goals." Instead, the Obama administration aggressively promoted the use of patented genetically engineered seeds and increasing large-scale production practices, the groups charged.

      "Our officials, along with U.S. agribusiness, are spreading the myth that more intensive production can feed the world, a message that is not only incorrect but dangerous in terms of its harmful impacts on sustainable livelihoods for the majority of food producers, and its exacerbation of the converging climate, economic, water and energy crises," said the letter.

      The groups called on the Obama administration to take bold action to resolve the global food crisis in a way that is healthy for people and the environment. The letter outlined 10 recommendations that focused on issues such as trade reform, food aid funding, market regulation and investments in sustainable agriculture.
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      Of course as we see by the broken promises of this summit there was as there always is, just talk.

    • 2 years ago
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