from the SAFCEI
and faith community representatives from the African continent.
We, a collective of faith leaders from Africa, are experiencing first-hand how the
Covid-19 pandemic is making visible failing food systems and fuelling hunger and
poverty in Africa. Alongside our responsibility to be custodians of the Earth, faith
networks are entrusted to ensure the just distribution and sharing of resources for all in
need.
While we are grateful to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (the Gates Foundation)
for its commitment to overcoming food insecurity, and acknowledging the humanitarian
and infrastructural aid provided to the governments of our continent, we write out of
grave concern that the Gates Foundation’s support for the expansion of intensive
industrial scale agriculture is deepening the humanitarian crisis.
● The Gates Foundation promotes a model of industrial monoculture farming
and food processing that is not sustaining our people. It reduces our resilience
— source safcei.org | Sep 10, 2020