UN People, I Propose Instead A “Global Properity Day” – People, Let Us Stand & Work Solidly Against Farmer Poverty And Climate Change!

As shared on Facebook by Filipino TV producer & reporter Jiggy Manicad, today, Wed, 20 Dec is “International Human Solidarity Day: 20 December” (source, United Nations, un.org). The image above (topmost) shows different humans presumably from different parts of the world ideally holding hands in peace, before & after discussing and later working for the common good.

I read the UN essay on the subject (cited above), and it says:

The Sustainable Development Agenda is centered on people & planet, underpinned by human rights and supported by a global partnership determined to lift people out of poverty, hunger and disease. It will, thus, be built on a foundation of global cooperation and solidarity.

Yes, it has been agreed among nations that the Sustainable Development Agenda be anchored on the concept of “sustainability,” by which the world aims at eradicating poverty, hunger & disease everywhere while allowing the resources to maintain their productivity.

Unfortunately! To pursue “Sustainability” means that the world will continue to use, undoubtedly, Chemical Agriculture (CA) for production of foods. In case you don’t know, CA is the singular cause of the twin global monsters called “Farmer Poverty” and “Climate Change”!

So, I wish the UN would adopt instead a “Global Development Day” whereby, among others, farmers and gardeners (and their villages) are enriched as a result of practicing a life-friendly agriculture that enriches their fields, their harvests, their pockets, their households, and their villages.

And how would that be? My single answer is: Via Regenerative Agriculture (RA). With every practice in RA:

(1)          The poor farmers will enjoy low cost and high returns, lifting themselves up from poverty.

(2)          Their farming will generate zero greenhouse gases (GHGs), meaning, zero contribution to Climate Change (CC), as the GHGs are the ones causing CC.

In short: “Regenerative Agriculture will solve Farmer Poverty and resolve Climate Change!” What could be more wonderful than that?!

Now then, today should be focused instead on an international “Regenerative Development Agenda” to stop Man’s abuse of Mother Nature and at the same time help her replenish the earth.
(“Replenish” from linkedin.com)

After the Great Flood, God told Noah and his family to go and replenish the Earth (Genesis 8:15-18). Applied to Agriculture, “Sustainable Development” is not in the Genesis sense of “replenishing the earth” – whatever your Bible version is. Rather, “Sustainable Development” means “continuing with” or “maintaining” or “upholding” the modern methods of farming – which are the causes of Climate Change. Chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides are among the wonders of the science world – but they are by their nature enemies of Mother Nature!

As an agriculturist (UP Los Baños 1965) and communicator for the continuing development of villages [as the title of my blog says so: “Communication for Development of Vibrant Villages (ComDev2)]”, I say:

UN People, we need to change our way of thinking from “Sustainable Development” to “Regenerative Development.” We owe it to ourselves – and our children and their descendants! We have to be ascendant today!@517