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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
CAN EUROPE
RETURN
TO P
ROSPERIT
Y
AGAIN ?
Unders
tandin
g th
e
econ
omy
of th
e Kin
gdom
Unders
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g th
e tim
e &th
e se
ason
Lead
ersh
ip: N
eed
of th
e re
vela
tion &
the
anoi
nting th
at p
roduce
the
visio
n
for t
he tra
nsfo
rmat
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