May 6, 2008 (LPAC)--The world food summit June 3-5 in Rome, convened last year by the Rome-based U.N. FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) and others, is already deep in the throes of a pre-meeting clash from agriculture and government leaders internationally, rejecting the tenets of the FAO's theme, "High-Level Conference on World Food Security and the Challenge of Climate Change and Bioenergy." Given the world food crisis, many nations have recommitted to seeking food security through expanding agriculture and seeking food self-sufficiency. They are rejecting the opinion-control myths of the era of the WTO (World Trade Organization) that climate change is the source of all woes and threats, and that bioenergy is good for you.
Lyndon LaRouche and his action committee LPAC announced a mobilization in April to "Kill the WTO" in all its forms and thinking. His wife Helga Zepp LaRouche, head of the international Schiller Institute, is calling for world action for emergency relief for all world's hungry, and for launching agriculture programs to double world food production--this must be the agenda of the FAO June conference.
The FAO summit was planned from the start in mid-2007 around entirely different premises. At the time, there was clearly worsening food underproduction, cartel-dictated cash-cropping and seed control, and hunger. Nevertheless, the conference was designed to strictly adhere to the Al Gore signature frauds that agriculture greenhouse gas emissions and overpopulation are harming the planet, and that biofuels are desirable. The summit's co-conveners are the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), which has been starved for funds for 25 years, and is tagging along on the climate change hoax; the International Fund for Agriculture Development; and the World Food Program, which has stood by as annual tonnage of world food relief fell from 15 million metric tons (in the 1990s) to below 8 million last year.
The FAO website page, "Why a Conference Is Being Held Now," runs a graphic asserting that agricuture contributes 14% of the world's harmful greenhouse gas emissions. When Al Gore told that to ricegrowers in India earlier this year, he had to flee from their vehement protests.
The FAO has held eight pre-conference events, called "expert meetings," over February through April. Topics included, "bioenergy policy, markets and trade, and food security;" and "climate change adaptation and mitigation," and so on.
The FAO June meeting is intended for heads of state, ministers, and private and NGO entities. So far, Brazil President Luiz Ignazio Lula da Silva and France's President Sarkozy have said they will attend.
The FAO was initiated in 1943, by representatives of 44 governments meeting in Virginia--with the encouragement of FDR, to found a permanent organization for food and agriculture. (A predecessor organization, the Internatonal Agriculture Institute, was founded in 1908 by American System figure, David Lubin, after whom the FAO Library is named). The first FAO session was then held in 1945 in Quebec City, as part of the U.N.; in 1951, the agency was moved to Rome. The workings of the FAO, involving data-keeping, and providing a forum for discussion, were nominally dedicated to ending hunger, but in recent decades the FAO has moved lock-step in line with the cartel-controlled globalization that undercut national agriculture programs.
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