Key Note Address to FECCIWA Workshop on Food Security - Accra, March 1st to 6th, 2010 By Rudolf Buntzel
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Key Note Address
to FECCIWA Workshop on Food
Security
Accra, March 1st to 6th, 2010
By
Rudolf Buntzel
Theses 1: • There has been the scandal of world hunger since many decades.
1000 million hungry world wide
India: 27,2%
China: 14,5%
USA: 1% Bangladesh 4,7%
Indonesia: 4,4%
Pakistan: 4,1%
ASIA: 63,9 %
LATIN AMERICA:
5,3% DR Kongo 5,1%
Ethiopia 4,3%
Nigeria 1,5 %
Kenia 1,5 %
Tansania 1,5%
SUB-SAHARAN
Hungry as AFRICA: 25%
percen-tage of > 70 % in rural areas
population:
>35% 20- 5-19% 2,5- 2,5% Keine
34% 4% < Angaben
Theses 2: • The world food crisis accelerated in the last 3 years considerably.
Why the reassessment of the role of rural development? • After 25 years of neglect, role of agriculture in development is reconsidered • High potential of rural development for reducing poverty discovered • Food dependency and size of import bill for food get too high for NFIDC • Achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is threatended • Who are the real hungry? The World Food Crisis fo 2007/08 was only a multiplier
World Food Crisis moves the world • 2007/08 hungerrevolts in 36 countries • scarcity of food and feed worldwide; stocks depleted • food prices on world markets skyrocketed (for grains April 2006 to Sep. 2008 by 140 %) • the poor, the indebted and the net food importing countries suffered most • the price hike coincided with the hike of the crude oil price and the publication of the climate reports by IPPC • world ag. relations under major restructuring: agro-energy, scarcity of mineral fertilizer, collapse of WTO-Round, crisis of neoliberalism (because of massive recourse to export restrictions), land grabbing In spite: the new farm bill of the US-Administration and the „Health Check“ of the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU unmolested.
Environment excenturates the crisis • Climate change • Scarcity of water • Loss of fertile soil • Energy crisis • Loss of agro-biodiversity
Theses 3: • The world food crisis and world hunger are related, but not identical.
Food Crisis or hunger crisis: different theories • Malthus, neo-Malthus (Thomas Malthus, 1766-1834) • Farm system approach • Entitlement approach • Livelihood approach • Rights based approach
Theses 4: • Hunger amidst abundance is unnecessary and immoral.
There is enough for all – even in 2050
World cereal use 2008
Less than
50 % of the worlds
cereal production
is used for food
„Other uses“ are
mainly energy and
fuel
Source: FAO Food Outlook, November 2008Number of obese persons world wide nearly as
high as number of undernourished
>50
Percentage 40 – 50
30 – 40
of obese 20 – 30
adults in 10 – 20
5 – 10
population 0–5 Percentage of obese adults (BMI >30, e.g.> 100kg at 1,80m)
No data
Source: WHOfood or fuel
The poor are not the challenge to food supply • Average cereal unit per 20% poor: 138 kg • per 20 % rich: 659 kg • per 20 % middle: 350 kg • Aver. US-Citizen: 1.230 kg • 2 billion more poor: 274 million t of grain • 2 billion more rich: 1320 million t of grain • 1 billion more on US-diets: 600 mio. t
Theses 5: • Churches clearly have to speak out and intervene on behalf of the poor and the hungry.
Theses 6: • There are confusing answers from the mainstream organisations of development on strategies.
Many New Concepts and Programms for Agricultural (Rural) Development • World Development Report 2008 of the World Bank on agriculture • Global Donor Platform on Rural Development • CAADP (of NEPAD) for Africa • Comprehensive Framework of Action by Ban ki Moon • IAASTD (Intern. Assessment of Agr. Science + Techn. for Development) • G-8 Decisions of Hokkaido and L´Aquila • Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) • World Food Summit (organised by FAO)
Different Schools of Thought • Technocratic answers • World Development Report 2008 of the World Bank • CAADP of NEPAD (Africa) • AGRA of Gates/Rockefeller • Global Donor Platform for Rural Development • Comprehensive Frame of Action of Ban ki Moon CFA) • On the side of the poor • Intern Assessment of Ag. Science Techno. Dev. (IAASTD) • Adancing African Agriculture of EU (AAA) • Intern. Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development ICARRD of Porte Allegre • FAO Guideline to the Right to Food
Theses 7: • Churches´ role in food advocacy is to give guidance and orientation.
• „These all look to thee, to give them their food in due season. When thou givest to them, they gather it up. When they opened thy hand, they are filled with good things.“ Psalm 104/27
Theses 8: • The basic message is: “Business as usual is no option”.
Theses 9: • Hunger is a social problem and needs a comprehensive and social answer.
International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development
Theses 10: • Churches analysis on the solutions to hunger is anti- technocratic: It is guided by the love for the people and the trust in their potential.
What churches need to avoid • Churches are not farmers´ unions or agr. experts; find your specific role • Do not be a teacher, be an advocate • Stay critical to technical and pure market based solutions • Keep your intellectual independence from government and other development agents
Fighting
hunger and
poverty is not
a technical
problem but a
question of
love for the
poorGenetic engineering or Agro-ecology
World trade or regional market
smallholders or big farms
Participation
Poverty Elimination
Gender approach
Soil management first
Peasants´ Empowerment for their genuine demands
Subsistence agriculture has a role to play
Living with, not against the forests
Seed diversity is the wealth we all live from
Local markets first
Agroforestry and compost: a very modern method
Build on the most successful local farmer – best practice!
Respect local culture
Improved intercropping
Farmers advise farmers
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