UN Summit on Food Systems: The Critique

Written By Richard Pace

Marion Nestle posted information about the forthcoming UN Summit on Food Systems (UNFSS) and its Pre-Summit.  The Summit has been heavily criticized on the grounds that it:

  • Sets agenda themes determined by corporate entities such as The World Economic Forum and the Gates Foundation.

  • Favors corporate technological solutions to food system problems.

  • Ignores agroecology, organic farming, and indigenous knowledge.

  • Excludes meaningful representation from people most affected by food system transformation.

  • Promotes corporate control of food systems.

  • Ignores the conflicted interests of its organizers.

  • Is fundamentally undemocratic.

These criticisms are so severe that The Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism for Relations with the UN (CSM) is organizing counter events July 25 to July 27.

For more information see this link.

Richard Pace
Previous

True Cost of Food