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Alliance for Faithful Food and Farming
• A network of faith groups and faith-based organisations
• Engaged in faith-based sustainable agriculture and sustainable land management
• Based on their own beliefs, teachings and practices
• To increase food security, reduce poverty, build resilience to climate change and protect the environment
Aims & activities of the proposed Alliance
• To inspire the faiths to take action on sustainable agriculture as a religious responsibility
• Help people to grow more food more sustainably, to end hunger, reduce poverty, protect the environment and tackle climate change
• Share best practice & experiences• Advocacy (local-national-international levels)• Build partnerships and coalitions
What do we mean by faith-based agriculture?
• Rooted in the faith conviction that we have a religious responsibility to: – Care for God’s creation– Feed the poor and lift people out of poverty
• Focused on poor & vulnerable communities and smallholder farmers
• Working through faith communities• Faith groups leading by example (eg, managing
faith land sustainably)