Pope to FAO: 'Guaranteeing access to food is a basic human right'
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Pope Leo XIV, in stay after the operation for lung cancer, invites to serve the interests of humanity, with the new technologies, not the military industry. In the first place of the priorities, the pontiff places hunger in the world and agriculture: "It is essential a new global food order, in which technological innovation is unconditionally subordinate to respect [...] The article Pope Leo: "Resources of the war industry to be converted to ag…
Pope to FAO: 'Guaranteeing access to food is a basic human right'
In his message to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization for World Food Day 2026, Pope Leo XIV calls for food to be recognized as 'a basic human right,' insists that bread must never be used as 'a weapon of war,' and urges the international community to show the 'moral audacity' needed to combat hunger. Read all
In a message for World Food Day, the Pope warned that hunger and poverty persist despite technological progress. He argued that guaranteeing access to food is an obligation of justice.
Pope Leo XIV called on the international community to redirect resources for the military industry towards sustainable agricultural research and the recovery of degraded lands, at a time when armed conflicts, climate change and economic inequalities continue to threaten global food security. In a message [...] The Pope Leo XIV entry calls for the allocation of resources from the military industry to combat hunger and recover degraded soils was f…
The text emerges on the occasion of World Food Day. Leo XIV said that hunger in the world "is not a technical or economic problem, but rather a profound anthropological and ethical crisis".
The Pope considered "unacceptable" that, at this time of technological progress, bread continues to be a privilege and water, a commodity, in a message to the FAO.
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