Eradication of Hunger and Poverty
The humanitarian crisis caused by impunity for state terrorism, genocide, and the Holodomor, combined with the environmental crisis caused by global warming and natural disasters, exacerbates the problems of hunger, poverty, and inequality.
Hunger
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World concluded that up to 733 million people worldwide were suffering from malnutrition in 2023, with the number believed to be higher because countries with the greatest hunger lack institutional security to reveal reliable statistics. The report also indicates that "hidden hunger," meaning hunger that is not regularly addressed, represents 2.8 billion people who cannot afford a healthy diet.
Poverty
By 2025, more than 1.1 billion people worldwide will live in extreme poverty. They also lack food, basic services, electricity, clean water, sanitation services for wastewater and sewage treatment, and garbage collection, among others. Nearly 1,000 children die every day from diarrheal diseases associated with contaminated drinking water, poor sanitation, or poor practices.
Inequality
While it is true that humanitarian aid budgets worldwide exceed €300 billion, in Europe they average about €15,000 per person per year. Aid spending is insufficient for the many people suffering from hunger and extreme poverty; it is a drop in the bucket; it is expenditure, not investment in creating opportunities and development. It serves to distribute crumbs without social or economic integration, thus perpetuating the scourges of hunger and poverty, with enormous gender inequality gaps. Some 388 million women and girls—the most affected—live in extreme poverty, while forced displacement exceeds one hundred million. In addition to aid spending, there are $10 trillion in annual costs to the global food system, according to researchers from the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics.
What Can We Do to Eradicate Hunger and Poverty?
We must halt the spiraling rise of hunger and poverty by addressing the main sources of humanitarian crises:
- Bring justice to an end to impunity for state terrorism, international terrorism, and genocide. These crimes against humanity are sanctioned by countless treaties that are not enforced. Today, the repressors are protected and the victims unprotected. For example, the terrorist group Hamas is protected instead of protecting Israel and the Palestinians from its terrorism. Israel is punished for fighting terrorism with immediate arrest warrants. The criminals against humanity of the tyranny in Venezuela, who have been committing atrocities for decades, aggravated in recent years, have still not received arrest warrants from the ICC after seven years of investigation despite tons of corroborated evidence. These atrocities have displaced more than 9 million Venezuelans through the Holodomor and state terrorism. The Cuban regime, complicit in genocide in Ukraine, has practiced state terrorism and the Holodomor for more than five decades. Despite this history, the UN has included it in the Commission on Human Rights, and the European Union continues to fund the terrorist regime, which, together with the Venezuelan regime and the members of the Sao Paulo Forum, has set America on fire to weaken democracies and establish narco-terrorist states. The Convention to Stop Genocide has not been applied to the genocide against Ukraine.
- Address the sources of environmental crises, climate change, by reducing and absorbing greenhouse gases and effectively mitigating natural disasters with proper and rapid reconstruction.
The NGO Arca Tierra works to solve the source of these problems, to stop and solve hunger, poverty and inequality, through its strategic plan The Climate, its programs and projects are aimed at developing the technological innovations and management models necessary to lay the foundations of a civilization capable of solving climate change, surviving natural disasters, recovering and conserving natural resources, with quality of life through sustainable development and equal opportunities to exercise human and environmental rights.
We educate and advise for the Management of Projects Oriented to Achieve These Purposes
WE PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT WITH EQUAL RIGHTS
WE GUIDE HOW TO EXECUTE SOLUTIONS IN PROJECTS
WE ADVISE HOW TO APPLY THE SOLUTIONS
WE TEACH INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS
At the micro level, we recommend innovation to empower low-income families:
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Empowerment of Poor Families
Projects designed to empower every family to overcome hunger and poverty by providing them with Learning by Doing training in the installation, operation, and maintenance of equipment to address their key shortcomings.
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.
Supply of electricity through various renewable energies, feasible depending on the geographical region and environmental conditions, which are complemented and stored in a mini water battery.
Production of biofertilizers and other raw materials for an aquaponics system capable of supplying organic food with high nutritional value.
In this way, families will be self-sustaining and will be able to sell surplus biofertilizers, water, electricity and food for the acquisition of other inputs necessary for their optimal survival and thus integrate socially and economically, promoting the development of their locality.
For the supply of water, electricity and food, assistance consists in general, by giving families small rations of water and food, by candlelight the children who have access to education study in the shadows, and thus they spend their lives malnourished and poor. We do not underestimate humanitarian assistance, because it saves lives, but in the long term it becomes part of the problem. Some Non-Governmental Organizations help to have a water tap, other rechargeable lamps, or food rations, and they are already more than educating sustainable agriculture.
Circular Economy
WATER-ENERGY-FOOD CIRCUITS
So the NGO Arca Tierra, considered these fundamental needs, and promotes a project, which consists of a circular economy, made up of 3 circuits, of water, electricity and sustainable food, in a compact, transportable model, with installation and operation standards. to make the improvement of the quality of life a reality and thus eradicate hunger and poverty.
What is a Circuit?
A circuit is a closed route and generally fixed in advance that returns to the starting point. In this case, each circuit begins to generate and reuse water, energy and food, these in turn interrelate to help each other in their production processes.
The WATER-ENERGY-FOOD CIRCUITS unifies the production of essential resources for survival, water, energy and food, integrating cutting-edge technologies for water reuse, with hydroelectricity, unites the water circuit with the energy circuit to generate electricity and store various renewable energies to supply water and electricity to the home and the food production circuit without CO2 emissions and without contaminating water and soil, an aquaponics system, where the water will also be treated and oxygenated with spirulina microalgae photobioreactors . This is how the water, energy and food circuits are interrelated, to produce them in abundance and in a self-sustaining way, since once in operation, the family will have autonomy of water, energy and food.
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Models
Next, we present several models of the WATER-ENERGY-FOOD CIRCUITS
Which are adaptable according to the budget, geographic location, natural disaster risk map, security (against terrorism or crime), characteristics of the home or infrastructure to which the circuits will be integrated, and terrain conditions.
Urban Home Large model
Water circuits, renewable energies and sustainable food for a family or group of houses of 4-10 low-income members who receive subsidies or soft loans, for their purchase. Unit that can also be installed in educational institutions, so that they teach sustainable economic activities. Savings from basic service accounts and electric transport recharging and income from the sale of surplus cushion investment. In the case of subsidies, savings from humanitarian assistance cushion investment, aimed at eradicating hunger and poverty.
Urban Home Medium Model
Water circuits, renewable energy and sustainable food for a family or group of houses of 4-6 low-income members who receive subsidies or soft loans, for their purchase. Unit that can also be installed in educational institutions, so that they teach sustainable economic activities. Savings from basic service accounts and electric transport recharging and income from the sale of surplus cushion investment. In the case of subsidies, savings from humanitarian assistance cushion investment, aimed at eradicating hunger and poverty.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND WATER-ENERGY-FOOD CIRCUITS
If they are homeless or their home is in very poor condition, they can opt for subsidy packages, for the construction of a house and the installation of circuits. Especially for social interest housing projects, with 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, living room, dining room and kitchen. The constructions must be suitable, according to the natural disaster risk atlas and the materials available in the area, and bioclimatic for thermal comfort.
Green Urbanization
If there is a group of people living in shacks, self-sustaining developments can be built in an area suitable for residential and commercial use, because in addition to offering housing, water, energy and food they will have sources of employment, thus, it will also serve for their social and economic integration.
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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