Eradication of Hunger and Poverty
We face a dual global crisis: impunity for drug trafficking, terrorism, genocide, the Holodomor, and state crimes, compounded by the climate emergency. The result is a critical increase in poverty, hunger, and inequality.
Hunger
Chronic hunger affects approximately 8.2% of the world's population; 2.3 billion people (28% of humanity) lack regular access to sufficient and nutritious food, and 2.6 billion people lack the income necessary to afford a healthy diet due to sustained food price inflation. These figures are believed to be higher because countries with the highest hunger levels lack the institutional security necessary to provide reliable statistics.
Poverty
Ten percent of the world's population (one in ten) live in extreme poverty, lacking not only food but also basic services such as electricity, clean water, sanitation for wastewater treatment, and garbage collection, among others. Nearly one thousand children die every day from diarrheal diseases linked to contaminated drinking water, inadequate sanitation, or poor hygiene practices.
Inequality
Although global spending on poverty and natural disasters exceeds $300 billion, current humanitarian assistance remains insufficient to address hunger, extreme poverty, and forced displacement caused by the climate crisis and crimes against humanity that go unpunished. In Europe, domestic aid averages €15,000 per person annually, but globally, resources dwindle like drops in the desert due to the questionable role of UN agencies tainted by complicity with terrorism. These funds operate as a welfare program that distributes crumbs without offering real social or economic integration, perpetuating social ills and widening gender gaps. The primary victims are the more than 400 million women and girls living in extreme poverty, part of a global exodus that has already displaced over 100 million people. This inefficiency not only perpetuates human suffering, but also clashes with an alarming economic reality: the global food system generates $10 trillion in hidden costs annually, demonstrating that the problem is not a lack of resources, but a structurally broken global model.
What Can We Do to Eradicate Hunger and Poverty?
Stopping the advance of hunger and poverty requires addressing the root causes of global humanitarian crises. As the NGO Arca Tierra, we embrace this commitment through three pillars of direct action:
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End impunity for crimes against humanity
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Demand for security and justice: Rigorously apply international treaties to punish state terrorism, international terrorism, and genocide. Without security, justice, and democracy, there is no sustainable development.
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Role reversal: Denounce the current lack of protection for victims and the institutional support afforded to perpetrators.
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Institutional bias: Question the inaction of organizations such as the UN and the ICC in the face of terrorist organizations (Hamas, Hezbollah) and terrorist regimes, such as Iran, Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.
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Migration crises and destabilization: Highlight the exodus of millions of Venezuelans and the coordinated attacks against Western democracies through narco-terrorism.
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Non-compliance with conventions: Alert the public to the lack of application of the Convention against Genocide in key conflicts such as the invasion of Ukraine.
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UN reform: Promote a restructuring of the UN to enforce compliance with Human Rights.
A head-on fight against global warming
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Real Climate Action: We solve environmental crises by driving the drastic reduction and effective absorption of greenhouse gases through nature-based ecosystem restoration, cutting-edge technologies, and technological and management innovation. We teach how to achieve this in 5 steps through free online education, thanks in part to the National Geographic Society.
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Emergency Response: We implement rapid and coordinated mitigation strategies for the efficient and dignified reconstruction of affected communities. We teach these solutions through videos, participation in international conferences, and other educational materials, targeting communities and decision-makers facing these crises.
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Stopping Desertification: The advance of desertification generates hunger, poverty, and forced displacement, with the Sahel region being the most critical example; a crisis exacerbated by terrorism, which we combat by demanding justice and compliance with international agreements, while implementing our innovative Green-Grey Mountain technology model to restore degraded soils and eradicate poverty at its root.
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Empowerment with Sustainability
We are moving beyond the model of perpetual humanitarian aid that offers mere crumbs, and towards the genuine empowerment of families, municipalities, states, and nations, fostering sustainable and discrimination-free lifestyles where human rights are exercised with civic responsibility. In this way, we are democratizing sustainability by integrating governments, businesses, and local communities in building just and democratic societies capable of generating comprehensive prosperity.
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Macro Solutions:
Sustainable Development to Eradicate Hunger and Poverty
We develop comprehensive territorial planning strategies for governments and regions, managing projects at the municipal, national, and regional levels, adapted to the geographical and climatic conditions of each territory.
We provide advanced solutions in the following key areas:
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Vital Resources: Integrated water management and technologies to ensure clean air.
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Energy Transition: Development and implementation of highly efficient renewable energy sources.
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Green Transportation: Road and pedestrian infrastructure with fast-charging systems and public transportation networks and electric trains to enable the widespread use of electromobility.
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Circular Economy: Advanced recycling models and sustainable production systems.
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Resilient Infrastructure: Buildings and public works adapted to withstand and mitigate natural disasters.
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Sustainable Construction: Transformation of the construction industry through energy-saving infrastructure that generates its own water and energy for self-consumption and sale of surplus.
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Urban Development: Strategic planning for the design of sustainable towns and cities.
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Biological Conservation: Comprehensive restoration and active protection of degraded ecosystems.
Micro-solutions to eradicate hunger and poverty: Agro-urban and rural housing and residential complexes
Empoderamiento de Familias Pobres
At Arca Tierra NGO, we transform realities by breaking the cycle of scarcity. Through this program, we implement WATER-ENERGY-FOOD Circuits, a technological innovation that allows each family to generate their own water, clean energy, and nutritious, fresh, and organic food. Humanitarian assistance consists of delivering a compact model of this innovation to each family. The equipment is accompanied by practical workshops using the Learning by Doing methodology. Communities become the protagonists of their own development: they learn to install and maintain their equipment, drastically reduce their expenses, sell their surplus, and acquire key technical skills to start businesses or access green jobs. The intention is to cultivate lifelong capabilities.
Drinking water supply, gray and black water treatment, with a water reuse system, which will prevent environmental contamination of nearby water sources and prevent floods and water shortages.
Continuous electricity supply based on the integration of renewable sources (solar, wind, and hydropower) within a unified hybrid grid. This configuration ensures high system reliability and resilience, guaranteeing uninterrupted power 24 hours a day, even in the face of adverse weather events or storms.
Production of biofertilizers and other raw materials for an aquaponics system capable of supplying organic food with high nutritional value.
Este nuevo enfoque contra el hambre y la pobreza genera los siguientes beneficios:
• Autosustentabilidad integral: Este modelo garantiza la autonomía de los hogares, permitiéndoles comercializar sus excedentes de biofertilizantes, agua, electricidad y alimentos orgánicos.
• Inclusión social y económica: Los ingresos generados facilitan la adquisición de insumos esenciales para una óptima supervivencia, rompiendo barreras de exclusión y marginación.
• Desarrollo local impulsado por la comunidad: La comercialización de recursos dinamiza los mercados locales, inyecta capital en la economía comunitaria y fortalece el tejido social desde la base.
Conventional humanitarian aid is often limited to delivering insufficient rations of water and food. In these environments, children try to study by candlelight, trapped in a cycle of malnutrition and structural poverty. We do not underestimate this emergency aid because it saves lives in critical moments; however, in the long run, it becomes part of the problem by creating dependency. Although some organizations provide valuable solutions in isolation—such as installing a tap, donating rechargeable lamps, or offering training in sustainable agriculture—these fragmented efforts fail to address the root of the problem.
THE WATER-ENERGY-FOOD CIRCUITS DOES
IT IS AN INTEGRATED RESOURCE CIRCUIT
A circuit is a closed, strategic route designed to maximize the use of each resource and return it to its starting point. Following this approach, our WATER-ENERGY-FOOD (WEF) Circuits initiate a continuous cycle of water, energy, and food generation and reuse, where each element interacts symbiotically to enhance the production process of the others.
How the WATER-ENERGY-FOOD (WEF) Circuits Work: This system unifies the production of essential resources for survival through the integration of cutting-edge technologies:
Water and Energy Synergy: The water circuit uses recycled water that meets WHO standards and connects with the energy circuit to generate hydroelectricity and store energy from multiple renewable sources. This guarantees an uninterrupted supply of light and water to homes and agricultural areas, with zero CO2 emissions and without soil contamination.
Sustainable Food Production: It integrates an advanced aquaponics system for intensive food production, where water is continuously treated, purified, and oxygenated through microalgae photobioreactors. The microalgae, in turn, serve as feed for the fish.
Absolute Autonomy: By intertwining water, energy, and feed in a self-sustaining closed cycle, the system grants each family complete self-sufficiency and freedom from traditional utility networks once implemented.
WATER
ENERGY
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Models
Modular and mobile resource generation systems (water, energy, and food) for the residential sector (new or existing homes). Through its Urban Home Medium (4 members) and Urban Home Large (6 members) models, the system optimizes family self-sufficiency and opens a revenue stream through the sale of surplus.
WEF Circuits and Housing
The WEF Circuits (Water-Energy-Food) system is integrated into modular homes built with cross-laminated timber (CLT). This material is notable for its negative carbon footprint, as well as its certified structural resistance to earthquakes and fires, guaranteeing high resilience to natural disasters. The model operates as a domestic infrastructure that generates vital supplies (water, electricity, and agricultural resources) geared towards efficient self-sufficiency and the sale of surplus.
Agro-urban and Rural Residential Complexes for Sustainable Municipalities
It consists of transforming informal settlements into sustainable neighborhoods. Peri-urban areas, where informal settlements are typically located, can be transformed into self-sustaining, mixed-use (residential and commercial) developments that combat poverty, unsanitary conditions, and lack of opportunities.
The WATER-ENERGY-FOOD Circuits in each project will integrate an interconnected system to guarantee autonomy and local development:
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Food self-sufficiency: Internal production of organic food and generation of surpluses for sale.
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Circular economy: Creation of local employment, community markets, schools, clinics, and recycling services.
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Advanced water management: Rainwater harvesting and infrastructure designed to prevent flooding and water scarcity.
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Green infrastructure: Common areas based on phytoremediation to treat wastewater and decontaminate water sources.
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Clean energy: Renewable generation and decentralized storage, including hydroelectric plants adapted to the volume of water available to supply public spaces.
This comprehensive planning transforms areas of vulnerability into engines of economic prosperity, health, and education, serving as a replicable model for sustainable municipal development.
Rural Model
The RURAL WATER-ENERGY-FOOD CIRCUITS will expand the circuits according to the available land, due to agricultural activities the water circuits are larger, geography is used or modified so that gravity conducts the water for irrigation systems and use residential, with hydroelectric plants along the way for greater generation of hydroelectric energy and storage of various renewable energies feasible in the region. Where sustainable agriculture is practiced (aquaponics and hydroponics ) and silvopastoral activities.
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