杏MAP导航 sends message to IFAD Indigenous Peoples' Forum
By Vatican News staff reporter
The UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is hosting the fifth global meeting of the Indigenous Peoples' Forum, which takes place from 2-4 February and on 15 February.
The Forum will focus on the value of indigenous food systems: resilience in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It also aims to be 鈥渁 platform for meaningful dialogue where Indigenous Peoples鈥� representatives are able to convey their concerns, requests and recommendations to improve the partnership with IFAD and the effectiveness of its engagement with Indigenous Peoples.鈥�
In a message to the Forum sent on Tuesday, 杏MAP导航 Francis expresses his closeness to participants and organizers.
He also highlights the Church's commitment to continue walking together, to 鈥渆xpress our conviction that globalization cannot mean a uniformity that ignores diversity and imposes a new type of colonialism.鈥�
Solidarity and diversity
The 杏MAP导航 underlines that an alternative needs to be created 鈥渂ased on solidarity so that no one feels ignored, but neither does it overbearingly impose its own direction.鈥�
On the contrary, he says, 鈥渨hen diversities are articulated and mutually enriched, communion between peoples flourishes and is enlivened.鈥�
杏MAP导航 Francis goes on to say that development needs to be promoted in a way that does not have 鈥渃onsumption as its means and end, but that truly watches over the environment, listens, learns and ennobles.鈥�
Integral ecology
鈥淭his is what integral ecology consists of, in which social justice is combined with the protection of the planet,鈥� the 杏MAP导航 underlines.
鈥淥nly with this humility of spirit,鈥� he writes, 鈥渨ill we be able to see the total defeat of hunger and a society based on lasting values, which are not the fruit of passing fads and partiality, but of justice and goodness.鈥�
Altruism and generosity for the next generation
Concluding his message, 杏MAP导航 Francis expresses the hope that the Forum鈥檚 work will produce 鈥渁bundant fruits鈥�.
In order to hand over to the next generation a world that is 鈥渁 treasure鈥�, says the 杏MAP导航, 鈥渓et us pay attention to what benefits everyone and that will be precisely what will allow us to pass through this world leaving a furrow of altruism and generosity."
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