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THE ROLE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN ERADICATING EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER


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Eradicating Extreme Poverty And Hunger, Promoting Rural Development

NEW DELHI, FEB. 22, 2009, 12.00 Hrs:

Pope Benedict XVI received participants in a meeting of the governing council of the Rome-based International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), which celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this year.

"When wealthy countries and developing nations come together to make joint decisions and to determine specific criteria for each country's budgetary contribution to the Fund, it can truly be said that the various member States come together as equals, expressing their solidarity with one another and their shared commitment to eradicate poverty and hunger. In an increasingly interdependent world, joint decision-making processes of this kind are essential if international affairs are to be conducted with equity and foresight," said the Holy Father.

He underlined "the emphasis placed by IFAD on promoting employment opportunities within rural communities, with a view to enabling them, in the long term, to become independent of outside aid. The 'rural credit' projects, designed to assist small land holding farmers and agricultural workers with no land of their own, can boost the wider economy and provide greater food security for all.

The Pope Continued, " These projects also help indigenous communities to flourish on their own soil, and to live in harmony with their traditional culture, instead of being forced to uproot themselves in order to seek employment in overcrowded cities, where they often have to endure squalid living conditions".

"The principle of subsidiary requires that each group within society be free to make its proper contribution to the good of the whole. All too often, agricultural workers in developing nations are denied that opportunity, when their labour is greedily exploited, and their produce is diverted to distant markets, with little or no resulting benefit for the local community itself".

The Holy Father expressed his thanks for IFAD's achievements over the last thirty years. He concluded saying, "The goals of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, as well as promoting food security and rural development, far from being over-ambitious or unrealistic, become imperatives binding upon the whole international community".

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