The United Nations says it wants to reduce hunger. Why then is it promoting policies that increase it?
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I discovered something shocking: the UN launched its war on fertilizer in Sri Lanka in 2019 to great fanfare. One month later, Sri Lankans elected an anti-fertilizer president, who claimed, falsely, that fertilizers cause kidney disease. In April 2021 he banned fertilizer.
As a direct result of Sri Lanka’s fertilizer ban, agricultural production crashed, the economy collapsed, and the government fell.
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In June, 2021, two months after the fertilizer ban, Sri Lanka hosted a UN-sponsored “Food System Dialogue” aimed at influencing the UN’s broader anti-fertilizer agenda for the world.
“Sri Lanka’s inaugural Food System Dialogue is part of a series of national and provincial dialogues conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture ahead of the 2021 UN Food System Summit set to take place in New York later this year.”
In his statement to the UN Food System Summit in New York in September, Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa repeated his claim that “chemical fertilizers… led to adverse health and environmental impacts.”
He said, “My Government took the bold step to restrict imports of these harmful substances earlier this year,” and blamed farmers for resisting his fertilizer ban, saying that “changing the mindset of farmers long accustomed to using chemical fertiliser has proven challenging.”
The UN justifies its anti-fertilizer agenda on the same basis as the Sri Lankan government: cost savings. UN documents claim that its goal for nations to “Halve Nitrogen Waste” would save nations “$100 billion annually.”
But the same document promotes a “circular economy,” which is a euphemism used by Green parties in Europe to refer to economic “de-growth” based on making food and energy production less productive.
UNEP isn’t the only UN agency promoting an anti-fertilizer agenda. The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 2018 launched the “Scaling Up Agroecology” Initiative. It is not a research initiative, it is an advocacy initiative.
It claims “agroecological systems are vital… for addressing poverty, hunger, and climate change.” In fact, agroecology reduces food production, and thus increases poverty and hunger.
Now, the UNEP is seeking to influence move nations away from modern fertilizers through “the International Nitrogen Management System (INMS)” under the guise of science. It calls INMS a “science support process” as part of an “Inter-Convention Nitrogen Coordination Mechanism.”
What’s going on? Why is the United Nations promoting a kind of food production proven to reduce yields, raise prices, and topple governments? And what can be done to stop it?
Check out my latest scoop to find out!
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