The goals of sustainable agriculture: from zero hunger to hunger era
For the past few years, zero seems to have come back into fashion even in agriculture: zero residue, zero pesticides, zero km, zero cost, zero hunger... Is it as if we are going back to basics? No, in fact we have actually zeroed out our values. If a few years ago the Fibonacci numerical sequence glimpsed in a sunflower seemed to bring us back to evolution, now we really need to start from scratch. Not for the sake of marketing, but instead to regain the right to live, now that, having drawn the line, we have perhaps realised that we have to make an ecological choice. This at least seems to transpire from the goals of the 2030 Agenda (Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs), although looking at the times... the situation looks different.
Endorsed by the Governments of 193 Countries in 2015, revised in 2020 and made feasible in 2030, the unattainable goals of our progressive society (economically, socially and environmentally) rather than a necessity seem to merely support... a game. The game of sustainable development or the Game of the Goose?
These goals are a bit of a Game of the Goose, a children's game as suggested by the multi-coloured graphics; determined by fate to always stay in the same place or to pay the penalty when you still don't go back; striving to reach the last box: the creation of a better world.
The great thing is that so many like to play ... and find it exciting to have fun with this international action programme; on the other hand, others take it as a commitment ... and make a religious commitment. The religious commitment (from the Latin “religare”, to unite together) to unite agriculture and the environment. And here's increasing production while respecting biodiversity, decreasing the resources employed while maintaining high quality standards, blah blah blah... almost an Ejaculatory prayer.
The 2030 Agenda is not a Gospel and yet many companies operating in the agricultural sector dress themselves up as believers. They bring an Agricultural Catechesis with which to say the rosary of the 17 reassuring Sustainable Development Goals.
On the backdrop of the New Church, instead of Madonnas and Christs still on the cross, there are now pitiful situations of children in the extreme ready to snatch money from people.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta had left them there on the non-profit organisation's conference table, where sipping mineral water cost more than a child to save.
It is not possible to achieve common prosperity if we do not first de-pollute hearts, minds, and the millions of hectares from which we draw the sacred food.
Don't delude yourself that you will mitigate climate change through a hypothetical reduction of inputs - millions of tonnes of substances accumulate in soils every year, while smart farming is slowly winking away.
The world Holocaust is advancing. Not zero hunger, but era of hunger. The non-resettable cost of humanity is served.
Lacking wheat? Meanwhile, we have legume flours and not least, cricket flour, to guarantee us sustainable zero environmental impact.
