By:Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer
     
Could FAO be called a failed United Nations Agency?
This is the question flashing across the minds of most people on Planet Earth as the Food & Agricultural Organisation is celebrating the 73rd anniversary of its establishment on October 16.
Based in Rome, the capital of Italy, where on Sunday FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told a meeting: "Failure to eradicate hunger will undermine all the Sustainable Development Goals, which means poverty will not be eradicated, natural resources will continue to degrade, and forced migration will continue to rise.”
He drew a bleak picture of the world food situation, appealing to governments of member countries to take "urgent measures” since there is no time to lose in order to reverse the recent increase in the number of hungry people.
According to FAO’s latest hunger report some 821 million people, or one of every nine people on the planet, suffered from hunger last year.
At the same time, 672 million overfed people are obese and over one billion people are overweight.
Neither José Graziano da Silva of Brazil nor FAO should be blamed for the pathetic food situation of our times, the uneven distribution of food, and the rapidly declining status of hundreds of millions of hungry fellow humans around the globe, especially in the so-called Third World, whose figure is fast approaching the billion mark.
This is while, in the supposedly First World (there is no Second World in between), food is wasted in enormous quantities, as the insatiable greed and gluttony of the people, or more properly the elites of Europe, North America, and Japan, as the well as the filthy rich of the oil-producing Persian Gulf Arab states, overfeed themselves on the labours of the poor before throwing away tons of leftovers.
For instance, every edible thing from anywhere in the world is available in huge quantity on the tables of the Wahhabi minority cult that rules the greater part of Arabia, while next door in Yemen, millions are starving and are on the verge of famine because the regime in Riyadh, in alliance with the superrich rulers of the UAE and with the latest weaponry supplied by the US and Britain, has imposed a devastating war for the past three-and-a-half years.
The result is displacement of farmers, devastation of agriculture, failure of crops, and destruction of the means of irrigation in Yemen.
Similar is the situation in many other countries, where the chief culprit is, of course, the Great Satan, who in tandem with Saudi Arabia and Israel, has virtually destroyed the fertile crescent that once extended from the confluence of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris on the mouth of the Persian Gulf in Iraq to the Mediterranean coast of Syria, by destabilizing the two countries through terrorists of all hue and colour.
In Afghanistan, the American occupiers have actively promoted poppy cultivation at the expense of the cultivation of grains and food cereals.
Africa and the Africans are among the major casualties of the food crisis, mostly because of wars, bloodshed, widespread corruption and faulty planning by the ruling regimes, looting of the Black Continent’s rich resources by the White Men of North America and Europe, and the resulting human suffering.
When there is no peace and stability, how can agriculture flourish and how can people stay in one place?
Sadly, satanic politics are systematically destroying the Planet without realizing that they are axing the feet of their own future generations as well.
In view of these facts, the FAO goal of "Zero Hunger by the Year 2030” will remain elusive and nothing but a false hope for the greater part of mankind, since God-given sources are being wantonly wasted.