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corporate capture of our food systems
Datum: 	Mon, 27 Sep 2021 10:06:10 +0100
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    *Food sovereignty – resisting corporate capture of our food systems*
    <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=168>



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This year marks 25 years since the paradigm of food sovereignty was
launched at the World Food Summit 1996 in Rome as a direct challenge to
market-based food security promoted through the World Trade Organisation
(WTO).  Food sovereignty asserts the autonomy and agency of small-scale
food producers and workers in the face of increasing corporate power
over the entire realm of food.  Since its launch, the food sovereignty
movement has grown, diversified, and birthed numerous initiatives to
address historical and emerging injustices, inequalities, rights abuses,
and oppressions. Today, the movement is at the cutting-edge of real
systemic change, with millions of people all over the world engaged in
and supporting solidarity economies, agroecology, territorial markets,
cooperatives, the defense of land and territories, and the rights of
small-scale food producers, workers, migrants, indigenous peoples, women
and people living in protracted crises.

Ironically, this year, the United Nations will convene a Food Systems
Summit (UNFSS) that is the polar opposite of food sovereignty. The
structure, content, governance and outcomes of the UNFSS are dominated
by actors affiliated with the World Economic Forum (WEF), as well as
government and UN officials who believe that successfully tackling
hunger, unemployment, climate change and biodiversity loss requires the
central involvement of corporations since they have capital,
technologies and infrastructure that surpass most nations and the entire
UN system. 

The coincidence of these two moments clearly shows fundamentally
opposing ideas about food systems. The UNFSS adopts a lens that serves
the interests of the industrial, globalized, corporate controlled food
system. By deepening dependency on corporate dominated global value
chains, and capital-intensive and market mechanisms, this approach
sidelines human rights and impedes real transformation of food systems.
Food sovereignty, on the other hand, tackles root causes of hunger and
malnutrition, emphasizes democratic control over food systems, confronts
power asymmetries and calls for radical economic, social and governance
changes to build just, equal, territorially rooted food systems that are
in harmony with nature, revitalize biodiversity, and ensure the rights
of people and communities. 
 
Corporations are using their considerable resources to co-opt the
conceptualization and governance of food systems through financing,
trade, investment, and multi-stakeholder platforms. The UNFSS is a
dangerously perfect example of corporate designed multistakeholderism,
where corporations can influence public decision making at the highest
level but make no public interest commitments themselves. The UNFSS
process has been characterized by a lack of transparency in
decision-making and strong involvement of corporations in all parts of
its structure, posing serious problems of accountability, legitimacy,
and democratic control of the UN.
 
Over the past year we have demonstrated our ability to mobilize across
multiple constituencies around the world against the corporate capture
of food and for food sovereignty. We have succeeded in challenging the
legitimacy of the Summit and prevented formal agreement to the creation
of new institutions, such as a panel of experts on food systems.  The
/Counter-Mobilization to Transform Food Systems/ organized from July
25-28 reached almost 11,000 people world-wide.

Food is a basic need and a human right: food systems provide livelihoods
for nearly a third of humanity and are intimately connected to health
and ecosystems.  We need, therefore, to continue strengthening the
convergence of food, health, environmental and climate justice
movements, and continue to rise up against corporate food systems that
are destroying our planet and our communities.
 
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