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Vatican Endorses Use of Biotech for African Farmers

October 7, 2009 2 comments

A recent story from the Catholic News Service discusses how the Vatican has endorsed the idea of African farmers using biotechnology as a means of bringing themselves out of poverty.
Archbishop Giampaolo Crepaldi, former secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said that new technologies “that can stimulate and sustain African farmers” must be

Pope Calls for Increased Agricultural Investment

July 7, 2009 No comments yet

Pope Benedict XVI has issued an his third encyclical calling for a restructured global economy.  In it, he also calls for an increased role for agricultural investment in helping to alleviate hunger and poverty in the developing world.
An article by the Associated Press says that the Pope:
specified that aid should go to agicultural development to



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