Campaign 2024
CAFOD’s campaigning tackles the causes of poverty and hunger, not just the symptoms. It is a tangible way in which we as a parish can express our faith. It enables us to help thousands more communities than we could just through fundraising alone, by advocating for changes in policy and practice to reduce poverty overseas. It includes political campaigning, but it is not party political. We make a difference when we join our voices with others who feel the same.
Current campaign in 2024: Fix the Food System
CAFOD's food campaign is urging the World Bank to protect the right of farmers around the world to use their seeds.
At the heart of the global food crisis is a struggle for control over the world’s seeds. For generations, small-scale farmers have freely swapped and shared a wide variety of seeds.
However, the freedom of farmers to choose what seeds they use is under threat as the World Bank supports new laws which push farmers towards using seeds sold by big agribusiness.
This puts control of the world’s seeds into the hands of a few giant corporations. If we want a sustainable food system, then we must stand with small farmers across the world as they fight for control over their seeds.
In 2023 70,000 people from a third of parishes in England and Wales signed Salina’s Big Letter. This gained the attention of the World Bank and has enabled CAFOD to engage with them on this issue. To keep up pressure please add your name to the 80th birthday card to the World Bank at Tell the World Bank to put seeds back into the hands of farmers (cafod.org.uk)
Anne, 08/02/2024