Sánchez commits 236.5 million euros in three years to fight for food security in the world
“The pandemic is over,” US President Joe Biden announced on Sunday, despite his critics’ slipstreams. Evidence of this is that heads of state from around the world met in person again this week after three years at UN headquarters in New York, but the end of the viral storm is not the harbinger of any dawn.
“Let us not be under any illusions”, what is to come, said UN Secretary-General António Guterres, is “a winter of global discontent”, the result of the economic and social consequences of the pandemic, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine. “The cost of living crisis is raging. Trust is crumbling. Inequality is skyrocketing. Our planet is burning. People suffer. We have a duty to act, and yet we are locked in a global dysfunction of colossal proportions.”
To this should be added “the hate speech, misinformation and abuse” that spread from social media platforms, “based on a business model that monetizes outrage, anger and negativity”, without. In his view, there is no power group that can dominate the situation.
It’s as if the seven plagues of humanity have only just begun, because “if no action is taken now, next year could be worse.” This winter’s energy crisis will be followed by fertilizers – three times more expensive than last year – and without food. There are plenty for this year, but “if the fertilizer market doesn’t stabilize, next year the food supply itself could be the problem,” he warned. Any spark in that pile of dry firewood could set off a bonfire of incalculable proportions “wherever fear spreads,” Guterres said.
Chile’s president, Gustavo Petro Urrego, shared that dark look, despite saying he came from “the land of yellow butterflies and magic,” which he called, which is also the country “of bloody beauty.” With his poetic premiere at the UN, he targeted those who invaded Ukraine as well as those who invaded Iraq, Libya and Syria “in the name of oil and gas”. “Don’t they see that the solution to the great exodus unleashed on their lands is to return to the water that fills the rivers and fields with nutrients?” He blamed them for the global dysfunction that was bleeding Latin America. “Which is more toxic to humanity, cocaine, coal or oil?” he asked.
He would have another chance to open the eyes of his hosts or insult them at the Food Security Summit – held at the same time at the initiative of Spanish government president Pedro Sánchez, co-hosted by Petro and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. , with United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken – for the presidency. It was about coping together that perfect storm caused by Covid-19, climate change and the war in Ukraine, with the potential to leave 765 million people around the planet “chronically hungry”. “There is no peace with hunger,” said Sánchez, announcing the pledge of EUR 236.5 million in credit to the Fund for the Promotion of Development over the next three years.
The Spanish government president also held an unexpected bilateral meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayipp Erdogan, to whom he offered his support in “searching for solutions” to the conflict in Ukraine. “Putin is at war with all of Europe,” Sanchez told Politico, “but that only makes Europe stronger.”
Source: La Verdad
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