The Farm of

Francesco

Justice in Global Food Systems

Improving communities around the world

Spirituality

– Educating farmers
– Creating stronger communities

Socio-Economically

– Increasing farmers’ income
– Improving employment of women and youth

Environmentally

– Improving soil quality
– Reducing carbon emission
– Reversing climate change

Co-creating a just agricultural and food system from the ground up by putting the farmers at the center

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About Us

Co-creating a just agricultural and food system from the ground up by putting the farmers at the center

We implement our mission by developing on-the-ground farmer trainings focused on regenerative agriculture, socio-economics and spirituality – working with farmers with poor food security and income for regenerative livelihoods for them, their families and communities, as well as by actively supporting global processes – namely the UN Rio Convention COPs, UN Food Systems Summit and the UN Committee for Food Security – in order to bring the voices of farmers into those.

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Pope Francis’ call and the story of our common answer

Seeing that context and experiencing that current broken economy and system, in 2019, Pope Francis invited Youth from all over the world to act and invited entrepreneurs, changemakers and researchers to co-design and give new life and soul to the economy. 3000 youth responded and joined The Economy of Francesco, divided in 12 working groups, each of them combining two words that are not usually seen together in the current economy.

Within the “Agriculture & Justice” Working Group – 9 young entrepreneurs, changemakers and farmers representing 8 different countries – started exchanging experiences and sharing the main pains present in agriculture get closer to the main injustices we experience every day in agriculture and started dreaming in creating a prophetic and specific solution to transform the system toward Integral Ecology.

The system is broken: Our call to action

Our current agriculture and food system is broken, from now, we have only 40 harvest left due to soil erosion caused by conventional agricultural practices and every year, we lose 12 million hectares due to desertification. This is rooted in non sustainable agriculture practices such as conventional arable production, till-farming, intensive monoculture and use of chemicals. Currently, most of the farmers in developing countries – roughly the 80% – are smallholders, most of them women, who own less than 2 hectares of land.

Despite having a key role in achieving global food security and nutrition, they are a vulnerable group who do not have the resources and knowledge to switch to more profitable and sustainable practices such as regenerative agriculture. Because of this, many farmers cant transition their productions or build a system that could lead them to regeneration, increase of economical results and productivity. Our current system has a critical systemic crisis, hence, we are called to co-build and support systemic solutions.

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