Food – a sustainable future!

Food –

a sustainable future!

(November 22 home AIAF)

Reader 1: 2014 has been declared the International Year of Family Farming. The General Assembly of the United Nations decided this at the end of last year, under pressure from 360 non-government organisations from more than 60 countries.  

There is a vast movement of public opinion against the amassing of land by the multi-national agriculture industry, and against the difficulty for small farmers and agricultural producers to obtain reasonable prices for maintaining their productive resources (earth, water, quality seed, equipment).

Family Farming is the keystone in the struggle against hunger and poverty, and knowing that the farming population in developing countries comprises between 50% and 80% of the total population, it is obviously crucial to talk about investing in farming at a family level.

 

Full Prayer : Food – a sustainable future!