PEOPLE VS. AGRIBUSINESS CORPORATIONS: THE BATTLE OVER GLOBAL FOOD AND AGRICULTURE GOVERNANCE
https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/files/brief-un-food-systems-summit.pdf
how the 2021 Food Systems Summit became the most uneventful UN event.
People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations calls out a number of powerful actors — the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, some Western governments, the World Bank, and others — who actively prevent the much needed transition as they continue to peddle corporate industrial agriculture.
The United Nations were created by states. In today’s globalized and interconnected world, when governments capitulate to corporate influence, civil society organizations, with cross border and multisectoral alliances, are the central force that defends the universalist values and principles on which this institution was built.
Podcasts
UN Food Systems Summit Resistance: exploring resistance to the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit and mapping out sustainable, bottom-up approaches to food sovereignty.
Part One, Nnimmo Bassey and Kristen Lyons https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/resistance-to-the-un-food-systems-summit-part-1/id1535716797?i=1000535184143
“The major issues are many, of course, and we do realize that a majority of those who go to bed hungry every day in the Global South are actually farmers. So the question is, how does this happen? How can farmers go to bed hungry?” Nnimmo Bassey
Part Two, Elizabeth Mpofu, Alejandro Argumedo, and Anuradha Mittal https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-two-elizabeth-mpofu-alejandro-argumedo-anuradha-mittal
“Farmers and civil society organizations were not consulted when the summit was being organized and it is not inclusive, but only focusing on the big agribusiness players… that is why the boycott has been so intensive.” Elizabeth Mpofu
“It's not grounded in people's rights, but in corporate rights. And it doesn't look actually for system change, but for maintaining this system, in a way that extends the control of the corporate power.” Alejandro Argumedo