The UN 69th
General Assembly opened on 16 September 2014. The Interim Results of the
discussions, online engagement and research inputs summarised into a Global
Report was to be presented to Member States, as well as the Public, in form of
a High Level side event on that day. Spirited effort to find out if the Global
Report was presented to Member States or was not released at all is yet to be
successful. This is a puzzle if UN Executive Management, UN Security Council
and UN General Assembly are really serious about achieving Final Push to
achieve MDGs by 2015 and Post 2015 Development Agenda Vision Ambitions.
It is our hope that
the Global Report will be released to the Public without further delay and its
implementation as well as the monitoring and evaluation of this implementation
will better address realities of over 100 Million Poor Nigerians, over 300
Million Poor Africans and over 2 Billion Poor Worldwide.
Meanwhile, the
SD2015 Partners including UNDESA and CIVICUS are working with Partners on
Developed Countries, Developing Countries, International Institutions and
International Foundations sides towards achieving increasing convergence between
Final Push to achieve MDGs by 2015 and Post 2015 Development Agenda Vision
Intention and Reality. This is Good. However, moving forward, there are 3
Models – New Vision Model, Business as Usual Model and Pessimistic Model.
Should SD2015 Partners continue to adopt Business as Usual Model, the Best that
can be achieved if the World continues to fumble and wobble and keep avoiding
Catastrophe. The Worst is that Economic Recession, Terrorist Attacks, Hunger,
Poverty, Natural and Unnatural Disasters and other World Problems will Push the
World to Pessimistic Model and catastrophe become inevitable.
Should SD2015
Partners genuinely commit to pursue with determination, collaboration,
coordination and cooperation in all arms of all governments on one hand and
collaboration, coordination and cooperation in all arms of all governments, non
governmental organizations, private sector, financial institutions and
community stakeholders on the other hand, at sub-national, national, regional
and global levels in each of the over 200 UN Member Countries and Non Member
Countries in our World today, World Sustainable Development could be achieved
through New Vision Model delivering proportional WIN – WIN for all concerned
Stakeholders in our World today.
It will be recalled
that the UN IEAG on Data Revolution after Global Consultation released its Data
Revolution Report on 6 November, 2014. This Report following the Business as
Usual Model focused on answers to Data Revolution What and Why Questions and
refused to include answers to Data Revolution How questions provided by at
least 2 of the contributors. This is indeed very sad. We are aware that some
complain has been made. It is our hope that SD2015 Partners would take up this
complain with aim of including practical answers to Data Revolution How
Questions in the implementation as well as the monitoring and evaluation of
Data Revolution through New Vision Model.
It will be recalled
further that Food Security and Nutrition Security issues is now being put on
the front burner in the Global Arena within New Agriculture Revolution. Again it
is Agriculture Revolution What and Why Questions that are being addressed. As long
as Agriculture Revolution How Questions are not addressed, the mistakes of
history in the implementation of first Global New Agriculture Revolution in the
1940s’ up to the fourth Global Agriculture Revolution ending 2015 will be repeated
as the fifth Global Agriculture Revolution start from 2016. This is avoidable,
if the UN Executive Management, UN Security Council and UN General Assembly
take corrective action on time.
It is clear that
Global New Agriculture Revolution whose Design and Delivery is built upon New
Vision Model will effectively bridge gap between Lessons Learning and Lessons
Forgetting and so will Treat Crops, Livestock, Fisheries and Forestry: Pre
Harvest, Harvest and Post Harvest 30 Issues and 8 Cross Cutting Themes as One –
as applicable to each Community in each Local Government in each of the over
200 UN Member Countries and Non UN Member Countries in our World today.
The 30 Issues are:
Land, Labour, Fund, Technology, Infrastructure, Market, Water, Health,
Security, Education, Environment, Standards, Production, Processing, Storage,
Research, Extension, Psychology, Corruption, Disasters, Welfare, Information,
Enterprise, Partnership, Innovation, Organization, Orientation, Discipline,
Data, Communication.
The 8 Cross Cutting
Themes are: Technical, Political, Cooperation, Competencies, Economic, Social,
Cultural, Religious.
It is clear that
Agriculture Revolution is a Primary Revolution. For Best Results it must be
integral part of other Primary Revolutions: Data Revolution, Enterprise
Revolution, Government Revolution, Applied Research Revolution, Attitudinal and
Behavioural Change Revolution, Cooperation Revolution and Digital Revolution as
well as Secondary Revolutions: Education Revolution, Health Revolution, Anti
Corruption Revolution, Electricity Revolution, Housing Revolution etc. These
Primary and Secondary Revolutions cannot stand on their own but are
interlinked, interdependent and interconnected with Reinventing Cities,
Reinventing Governance, Reinventing Universities and Tertiary Institutions etc
as well as other interventions.
If you require some clarification or
additional information, please send email to:-
Lanre
Rotimi
International
Society for Poverty Elimination, ISPE /
Economic
Alliance Group
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