Crises in Europe:A Sunset or a Dawn?

Luc GNACADJA

Pre-Summit Meeting - Amsterdam, 14 November 2013

IS THE CRISIS JUSTFINANCIAL?

ONLY EUROPEAN?

WE MUST LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE

The parable of the sower (Mark 4, AMP):

The soil’s economy and the far-reaching impacts of soil degradation

Extreme Poverty

Water stress & Increased

vulnerability

to Drought

Food insecurity &

Hunger

Biodiversity Loss

CC: Loss of

resilience & Increased

emissions of GHG

Environ. induced

Migrations

Deforestation

Instability & Crises

Soil degradation linkage with global issues

Economics:LD cost up to 5% Agri.

GDP/Year

Poverty eradication

Improving livelihood through pro-poor

policies on Sustainable Land & Water Management

Drought & Water stressImproving water

availability & quality through sustainable

land & water management

Food SecurityPreserving the

resource base for food security – Land productivity/Soil

fertility improvement at the core of all long

term strategies

BiodiversityBiodiversity

conservation through improvement of land

ecosystems’ conditions

Climate changeLand is a win-win

context for adaptation, mitigation & resilience building

Bio EnergiesOpportunities for Bio

energies through biomass production

Avoided Deforestation

Sust. Land Management & Restoration of

degraded Lands as an alternative to Deforestation

Avoiding environ. Forced

MigrationsChanging the DAM

paradigm“Degrade-Abandon-

Migrate”

The benefits of SLM

and Restoration

Holistic Stewardship

Why is society so ill-equipped to understand degradation & restoration?

As soil degradation, ‘spiritual degradation’ is a slow motion crisis but with far-reaching impacts

The initial response to the economic crisis has been built on the scarcity paradigm. Thank God for the sophisticated but Europe needs the supernatural. Operating according to the Kingdom’s economy: where Kingdom’s mathematics 1+1 = multiple of 2 prevails

Societal crises are leadership crises From societal degradation to restoration:

To be effective, restoration must be undertaken through Holistic stewardship for societal transformation

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