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Sara Wolcott | Friday 20th November 2009
Sometimes, some things are so basic we forget about them - including forgetting to plan to include them in the future. We assume they will always be there. Until, suddenly, they are not. What if food was like that? Fear decades, agriculture has been on the back burner of much of the international agenda. Recently, that has changed, as some of my past posts on sustainable development and agriculture have shown. But of particular concern is the extent to which agriculture has been left out of the climate change debate. In short: it has been left out, and this is really bad. Because we gotta eat. Sustainable development and green economies need to include food security - lest we have riots, or maybe wars, famines, hunger, misery, starvation - all those things that happen to people who don't have enough food and who don't know where or how they are going to get their next meal. But climate change negotiations do not, now, include attention on agriculture. Which is why Nora Ourabah Haddad of the Internatioanl Federation of Agriculture and representing Farming First (about which I've written other posts) has been paying close attention to the Climate negotiations. I spoke to her right after she had been in Barcelona, trying to support the process of mainstreaming agriculture into the text. Read More |
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