Life giving agriculture offers new way to do mission

Workshops on life giving agriculture were among the most popular at the World Council of Churches (WCC) Assembly in February. </td></tr><tr valign="top"></tr></tr><td></td></td></td>
Around 100 delegates arrived to the first seminar and 50 to the second about a method of farming that helps small farmers grow crops without the use of chemicals and to produce goods at a price affordable to the poor in their own communities.</td></tr>

CWM executive secretary for mission programme Rev Dr Jooseop Keum co-organised the seminar with other members of the Ecumenical Coalition for Alternatives to Globalisation. The coalition is promoting life giving agriculture as a response to large agricultural corporations' favouring of big farmers, emphasis on export and use of GMO (genetically modified organism) seeds, pesticides, chemical fertilisers and machinery. (...)