Greetings to you, my humble opinion stipulates thus,
holding to the fact that artificial fertilizers have huge effect on the life of the soil, causes eutrophication in water and the heavy metals contained in such as lead bio-magnify through the ecosystem and which totally affects human health, I think this totally contradicts the objectives of FAO program which is to eliminate hunger, poverty, malnutrition and food insecurity and off-course to improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries in a sustainable way.
there is therefore the need to first of identify the various stake holders involved, the consumers of artificial fertilizers, the producers and entrepreneurs involved and try to school them on the effects of artificial fertilizer on the ecosystem.
The FAO member states should encourage organic farming as a feasible means to effectively achieve sustainable agriculture and fight food insecurity. This could be through the production of organic fertilizers using farm, poultry and livestock waste and also to encourage environmental education in schools to be able to educate the future generation on the importance of organic farming on the environment. Training could also be given to farmers on the advantages of organic fertilizers over artificial fertilizers.
FAO member states could also place a high tax on the importation of artificial fertilizers and try to give subvention to farmers and train them on how to be able to recycle their farm waste to produce organic fertilizers.
Thank you
E.s Njie-assam
M. Eyongetta Njieassam