{"id":6016,"date":"2015-06-11T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T15:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=6016"},"modified":"2015-06-12T15:12:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T15:12:53","slug":"pope-francis-and-un-agency-discuss-sustainable-future-of-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2015\/06\/pope-francis-and-un-agency-discuss-sustainable-future-of-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis and UN agency discuss sustainable future of agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Addressing over a hundred delegates attending a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/\">FAO<\/a>) conference in Rome, Pope Francis today urged Member States to work toward combatting food waste, reducing the volatility of food prices, and creating a sense of global solidarity to ensure food security for all people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf all Member States work for one another, consensus for action by FAO will not be late in arriving and, moreover, FAO\u2019s original role will be rediscovered,\u201d the Pope <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/news\/story\/en\/item\/293454\/icode\/\">declared<\/a> during a special audience at the Vatican, as he cited the agency\u2019s Latin logo, \u2018fiat panis,\u2019 or \u2018let there be bread.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVolatile food prices prevent the poor from planning ahead, from being able to count on getting even a minimum level of nutrition,\u201d the Pontiff continued. \u201cLet us seek another path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a separate meeting with FAO Director-General Jos\u00e9 Graziano da Silva, Pope Francis underscored the importance of the UN agency\u2019s ongoing efforts to decentralize \u201cso as to be in the midst of the rural world, in order to understand the needs of the people the Organization is here to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pontiff, however, also drew attention to the dangers of market influences and speculation on agriculture, voicing concern over large scale acquisitions of agricultural land by transnational companies and governments which, he said, \u201cnot only deprives farmers of an essential good [but also] affects the sovereignty of nations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He expressed the same tone of concern when discussing the state of food waste around the world, urging consumers to \u201cdecisively commit\u201d to modified lifestyles and sustainable living.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSobriety is not in opposition to development, indeed it is now clear that the one is a necessary condition for the other,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=51130#.VXrz-vlVikq\">UN News Centre<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addressing over a hundred delegates attending a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) conference in Rome, Pope Francis today urged Member States to work toward combatting food waste, reducing the volatility of food prices, and creating a sense of global solidarity to ensure food security for all people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[144],"class_list":["post-6016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zero-hunger","category-news","tag-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}