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OPEN LETTER: AFRICAN FAITH COMMUNITIES CALL ON GATES FOUNDATION, “STOP PUSHING INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE!”
SOUTH AFRICA: The Southern African Faith Communities’ Institute (SAFCEI) and faith community representatives from Africa recently made public its open letter to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They are appealing to the Gates Foundation to reconsider its approach to “food security and food production” and to stop their push for “input-intensive crop” monoculture agriculture and industrial-scale farming in Africa.
According to SAFCEI’s Gabriel Manyangadze, “Widespread hunger on the African continent, during the Covid-19 crisis, has highlighted the systemic failings of the current profit-driven system. With this week dedicated to raising awareness of the environmental challenges facing Africa, we reiterate our call to the Gates Foundation to stop pushing devastating industrial agriculture on the continent and instead move towards sustainable and agro-ecol