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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.<br>
                                                <br>
                                                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. <br>
                                                <br>
                                                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. <br>
                                                 <br>
                                                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.<br>
                                                 <br>
                                                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 <i>Counter-Mobilization
                                                  to Transform Food
                                                  Systems</i> organized
                                                from July 25-28 reached
                                                almost 11,000 people
                                                world-wide.<br>
                                                <br>
                                                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.<br>
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