History seems to repeat itself and it would be hard to imagine that anything will change in the next 15 years (until 2030). It doesn't really matters because at the end, the indicators used are somewhat meaningless and contradictory.
After more than 25 years of development we still measure success to address poverty with the $1.25 a day. Would you call that success?
Nutrition has little to do with agriculture alone. It has to do with infrastructures, with education, with health, with transport -- but this is not how we measure success.
Public policies are often the worst enemy to development. Look at the European focus on bio-fuels? Good productive land is being used to massively cultivate sugar cane in Cali (Colombia) instead of food.
Food is big business and on international markets it's mostly referred to as "commodity" - so who is the victims? We, our self, make it unsustainable! Our pension funds, our investment drive up the prices or drive down the prices in order to play the speculation game.
What are the odds that in the next fifteen years this situation will change? Slim to none is the answer. Funding for development focuses on a particular indicator -- AIDS never really speaks about Tuberculosis. Education never speaks about nutrition, and so on!
Are we talking about the UNsustainable development goals?
History seems to repeat itself and it would be hard to imagine that anything will change in the next 15 years (until 2030). It doesn't really matters because at the end, the indicators used are somewhat meaningless and contradictory.
After more than 25 years of development we still measure success to address poverty with the $1.25 a day. Would you call that success?
Nutrition has little to do with agriculture alone. It has to do with infrastructures, with education, with health, with transport -- but this is not how we measure success.
Public policies are often the worst enemy to development. Look at the European focus on bio-fuels? Good productive land is being used to massively cultivate sugar cane in Cali (Colombia) instead of food.
Food is big business and on international markets it's mostly referred to as "commodity" - so who is the victims? We, our self, make it unsustainable! Our pension funds, our investment drive up the prices or drive down the prices in order to play the speculation game.
What are the odds that in the next fifteen years this situation will change? Slim to none is the answer. Funding for development focuses on a particular indicator -- AIDS never really speaks about Tuberculosis. Education never speaks about nutrition, and so on!
Are we talking about the UNsustainable development goals?
Hypercollectively yours -- Luc Lapointe