UN & WEF Are Behind Global War On Farmers

The United Nations’ “Agenda 2030” Sustainable Development Goals and the U.N.’s partners at the World Economic Forum (WEF) are directly related to the rising regulatory assault on agricultural producers from Holland and the United States to Sri Lanka and beyond.

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In fact, a number of the U.N.’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are directly tied to the implementation of laws that put pressure on global agriculture, ranching, and food sources.

High-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials within the U.N. system assisted in the development of the SDGs and are currently assisting in directing the organization’s execution of the global strategy.

The U.N.-backed sustainability regulations on agriculture and food production, according to a number of experts, would cause economic ruin, shortages of essential items, widespread starvation, and a significant loss of personal freedoms if not stopped.

Officials predict that as the year goes on, the dangerous food shortages that millions of people are already experiencing will only worsen.

According to experts, there is a hidden goal behind everything.

According to U.N. papers, private land ownership is in the crosshairs as global food production and the global economy are modified to fulfill the global sustainability targets.

The goals set in 2015 “build on decades of work by countries and the U.N.,” as the U.N. explains on its SDG website.

The United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, often referred as Habitat I, which embraced the Vancouver Declaration (read below), was one of the first conferences to define the “sustainability” agenda.

According to the agreement, private land ownership is “a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth, therefore contributes to social injustice,” and “land cannot be treated as an ordinary asset controlled by individuals.”

The U.N. resolution stated that “public control of land use is therefore indispensable,” setting up the World Economic Forum’s now-famous “prediction” that by 2030, “you’ll own nothing.”

Since then, a number of U.N. organizations and representatives have described their vision of “sustainability,” which includes demands for significant limits on energy use, consumption of meat, travel, living space, and material wealth.

In an attempt to centralize control over food production and squelch independent farmers and ranchers, some of the richest and most influential corporate leaders in the world are collaborating with communists in China and other countries, says experts.

A “strategic partner” of the U.N. on Agenda 2030 is the WEF, a network of significant international corporations that works closely with the CCP.

As officials from all over the world, including U.S. President Joe Biden and the head of the United Nations World Food Programme David Beasley, warn of impending food shortages worldwide, the regulation of food production is becoming more strict, and there are even attempts to shut down numerous farms and ranches.

But Western nations and many aid-dependent states are tightening regulations even more, rather than loosening them and promoting increased production.

This summer, Dutch farmers — who were already near breaking point — responded with widespread, huge protests. That was followed by tumultuous upheaval in Sri Lanka related to food shortages brought on by political decisions.

Governments and international organizations have used a variety of justifications for the policy, such as fostering “economic justice,” safeguarding various species of flora and fauna, and even giving back land to aboriginal peoples.

However, the policies’ detractors contend that the objective is not at all to protect the environment or stop climate change. The “sustainability” story and the other explanations, the experts caution, are actually a tactic to obtain control over food, farm, and people.

According to Craig Rucker, head of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), a public policy organization that focuses on environmental and development issues, “the end goal of these efforts is to reduce sovereignty on both individual nations and people.”

The purpose, is to consolidate authority at the national and even international level. “The intent for those pushing this agenda is not to save the planet, as they purport, but to increase control over people,” he said.

UN Sustainable Development Goals — Agenda 2030

The United Nations and its member nations approved the Sustainable Development Goals, often known as Agenda 2030, in 2015 as a roadmap for “transforming our world.” The 17 goals contain 169 targets covering every aspect of the economy and human life, and are heralded by top U.N. officials as a “master plan for humanity” and a global “declaration of interdependence.”

The document’s preamble states that “no one will be left behind” and states that “all countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, will implement this plan.”

Goal 10 of the U.N. plan includes, among other things, redistribution of wealth on a national and worldwide scale, in addition to “fundamental changes in the way that our societies produce and consume goods and services.”

The SDGs emphasize using governments to reform all economic activity, with Goal 12 requiring “sustainable consumption and production patterns.”

Several of the specific goals listed in Goal 12 are closely related to agricultural practices that jeopardize food production. These include “sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.”

The document requires “environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks,” which is perhaps more significant.

As a result, “significantly reduce their release to air, water, and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment,” in particular for farmers.

Goal 14 of the SDGs, which covers “marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including … nutrient pollution,” is another SDG that is directly related to what detractors have dubbed the “war on farmers.” Agriculture and food production are frequently cited by the U.N. as threats to the ocean.

Leading the charge is the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which is overseen by Qu Dongyu, a former vice minister of agriculture and rural affairs for the CCP.

The U.N. body asks for severe limitations on the application of fertilizers, pesticides, emissions, and water in the agricultural sector in its 2014 report, “Building a Common Vision for Sustainable Food and Agriculture: Principles and Approaches.”

According to the FAO report, “excessive use of nitrogen fertilizer is a major cause of water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.” This statement serves as an illustration of how agriculture must be transformed in order for it to be recognized by the U.N. as sustainable.

SEVERAL Very Large Food Processing & Distribution Plants Have Recently Exploded Or Burned Down

As food uncertainly lingers on the horizon thanks to US sanctions and government decimation of the economy during the past two years, there is another factor contributing to the problem. Since the beginning of the year, there have been several very large food processing facilities that have exploded or burned to the ground across the U.S..

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This week, a vegetable and nut processing facility in Dufur, Oregon became engulfed in flames for unknown reasons.

“Lights flickered; They heard a pop and went up there to check it out and there was a fire,” according to a report made to Wasco County 911 records listed in the Wasco County Sheriff’s log.

The independent distributor of natural, organic an non-GMO foods which employees around 150 people, burned to the ground.

One week before that fire in Oregon, a massive fire brought down a meat processing plant in Conway, New Hampshire. After burning for 16 hours, multiple fire crews finally put out the fire at East Conway Beef and Pork but the facility is completely destroyed.

That same week, in Salinas, California, a massive fire at the Taylor Farms Processing Facility led to the evacuation of residents as it burned for over 17 hours. Taylor Farms is a major agriculture company that processes and delivers many of the salad kits seen in grocery stores. The cause of this fire is currently under investigation.

Just weeks before that, a massive fire engulfed a Walmart distribution center in Plainfield, Indiana where over 1,000 employees shipped food and other supplies all over the region. The fire destroyed the massive 1 million square foot operation.

That same week, one of the largest food facilities of its kind in South Texas caught fire and burned to the ground. Prior to burning down, the Rio Fresh facility in San Juan, Texas, grew, packed and shipped a variety of Texas-grown items including Texas 1015 Sweet Onions, melons, greens, cabbage, and kale. The cause of the fire is currently unknown.

In Hermiston, Oregon, in February, a massive food processing facility suddenly exploded, injuring 7 of the nearly 400 employees who work at the Shearer’s Foods plant. According to reports, the cause of the explosion which originated near a boiler is still under investigation.

It’s not only food production and distribution plants either. In Maricopa, Arizona, in March, a massive fire wiped out the Maricopa Food Pantry which distributes food to the less fortunate. More than 50,000 lbs of food was destroyed in the blaze that lasted for 24 hours. That fire is also under investigation.

The fact is that since last year, more than a dozen of these fires and explosions have taken place at food processing and distribution centers.

To be clear, general warehouse fires are quite common. In fact, fire departments respond to more than 1,000 a year. However, the main cause of these fires is arson. What’s more, fires in food processing facilities are not that common and occur far less often.

To claim that all of these incidents are related would be pure speculation. But given the current supply chain situation and looming food shortages, the very idea of critical infrastructure burning to the ground for any reason, is unsettling to say the least.

African Faith Leaders Call On The Psychopathic Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation To Drop African Green Revolution

In August 2021, an alliance of African faith leaders delivered a powerful message to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Stop promoting failing and harmful high-input Green Revolution programs, such as the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).

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At a virtual press conference, the Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute (SAFCEI) released its public letter to the Gates Foundation, which it sent two months ago with 500 signatures from African faith and farming communities. They have received neither an acknowledgment nor a response from the Foundation.

“Faith leaders are witnessing the negative impact of industrialized farming to the land and in their communities and have come together in this letter to say to the Gates Foundation: please re-think your approach to farming in Africa,” says SAFCEI Executive Director Francesca de Gasparis.

Farmers and faith leaders speaking at the press conference urged donors to shift their funding to more effective and sustainable approaches such as agroecology.

Crucial Challenge At A Critical Time

Their call comes at a critical time. In Sub-Saharan Africa, 66 percent of people (724 million) now suffer moderate to severe food insecurity, up from 51 percent in 2014, according to the State of Food Insecurity report recently released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

As food insecurity increases — intensified by the ongoing crises of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic — the United Nations is convening a Food Systems Summit in September to address global failures to reduce hunger in line with commitments made in the Sustainable Development goals.

The summit, which is led by AGRA President Agnes Kalibata, is mired in controversy, accused by farmer groups of promoting the same kinds of industrialized agricultural development that have failed to address the hunger crisis.

The letter to the Gates Foundation detailed the negative impacts that industrialized agriculture has had on the land and in the communities of faith leaders from around the continent.

At the press conference, presenters emphasized the need for the Gates Foundation and other donors to break with the current agriculture agenda and instead invest in more regenerative, agroecological approaches.

“Farmers have become wary of programs that promote monoculture and chemical-intensive farming. They have lost control of their seeds. Now, they say they are being held hostage on their own farms,” says Celestine Otieno, a permaculture farmer from Kenya. “Is this food security or food slavery?”

South African agroecology farmer Busisiwe Mgangxelareiterated that farmers practicing agroecology “do not feed the soil with chemicals, we feed it with organic matter and fertility from other companion plants.”

As the letter details, input-intensive monoculture agriculture damages ecosystems, threatens local livelihoods, increases climate vulnerabilities and undermines smallholder farmers engaged in more sustainable methods of production.

Fletcher Harper, director of GreenFaith, an international network, was direct:

“The plan of displacing millions of small holding farmers, using an industrial monoculture approach to farming, lacing the soil and water supplies with toxic chemicals and concentrating ownership of the means of production and land ownership in a small elite is an immoral and dangerous vision that must be stopped.”

AGRA In The Crosshairs

Anne Maina, national coordinator of the Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya (BIBA), highlights the negative impacts and lack of accountability of AGRA. Launched in 2006 by the Gates Foundation in partnership the Rockefeller Foundation, AGRA set goals of doubling crop productivity and incomes for 30 million small-scale farming households while halving food insecurity in 20 focus countries by 2020.

As IATP’s Timothy A. Wise documented in a report last year, the deadline has passed, and productivity has improved only marginally, poverty remains high and the number of “undernourished” people in AGRA’s 13 focus countries had increased 30 percent by 2018.

BIBA and other groups engaged with AGRA demanding evidence to counter these findings, but Maina says they received no substantive answers. Even AGRA’s own 2020 Annual Report offers little convincing evidence of success.

According to SAFCEI, another insidious aspect of the Gates Foundation’s efforts in Africa is the foundation’s attempt to influence and restructure seed laws.

“80% of non-certified seeds come from millions of smallholder farmers who recycle and exchange seeds each year,” SAFCEI reports in its press statement at the event, “building an ‘open-source knowledge bank’ of seeds that cost little to nothing but have all the nutritional value needed to sustain these communities. In contrast, the approach supported by the Gates Foundation threatens to replace seed systems diversity and the agro-biodiversity system that is critical for human and ecosystem health and replace it with a privatized, corporate approach that will reduce food systems resilience.”

SAFCEI director de Gasparis is clear on the social and environmental stakes:

“What African farmers need is support to find communal solutions that increase climate resilience, rather than top-down profit-driven industrial-scale farming systems. When it comes to the climate, African faith communities are urging the world to think twice before pushing a technical and corporate farming approach,” she says.

Summarizing the demands of African faith communities, Rev.Wellington Sibanda, intern resident minister in South Africa, says:

“We can’t keep quiet as faith leaders. We call on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to shift its funding into agroecological farming.”

Reference: FoodTank.com