The UN’s Global Goals for Sustainable Development are largely being written by NGO’s from rich countries, which is making some of the world’s poorest countries skeptical about their implications. Europe is pushing for UN sustainability goals that largely mimic its own Farm to Fork strategy with its 50 percent cut in nutrients and plant protection chemicals, land set-asides, and organic mandates. Since many of the least food secure countries already use lower volumes of inputs and have yields that are often much smaller than crops in countries with higher input use, they associate the envisioned global restrictive standards as a death warrant.  It does not help that many of these countries are former colonies that hav...

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