Should corporate takeover of the global food system get UN approval?

[Lliam]

“Small-scale farmers and Indigenous groups say they have again been shut out of the UN Food Systems Summit.

A UN summit on global food systems should be an opportunity to address structural inequalities and tackle hunger. It should be a chance to learn from small-scale producers whose sustainable food practices feed 70% of the world. Instead, next week’s conference in Rome will be a festival of greenwashing, allowing Big Agriculture corporations to tighten their grip on food systems.

Food is a common good and access to healthy and nutritious food is a basic human right enshrined in UN covenants. These are the issues that governments and the UN should focus resources on, and next week’s summit provided a perfect opportunity.

Sadly, it looks set to simply consolidate corporate control over food and natural resources.

Hundreds of grassroots groups have called out the UN, saying they are still being excluded and claiming the summit is “poised to repeat the failures” of two years ago and want to see fundamental change in food systems.

Here’s the picture as it stands. A handful of agribusinesses control more than 70% of the world’s farmland. Smallholder farmers, fisherfolk, pastoralists, and Indigenous peoples, who use agroecology and other sustainable practices, feed 70% of the world’s population with just 10% of global farmland.”

[RealMarek]

Of course not. Continued centralization of our food supply and increased processing of food creates obvious systemic supply chain and health risks. We need to break up the dominant agricultural companies.

[Grond21]

The UN needs to go

[Grond21]

Thanks for the MHO

[OlderAndWiser]

Can you remember the last time that the UN accomplished something that was good, AND did it efficiently?

[jshm2]

You must have been born yesterday, if you didn't realise it's always been such in every industry.

From food, construction, weapons, pharma, to technology and everything between. It's always been a couple of big players, many smaller players, and the sole multitudes.

We laughingly claim "no monopoly," when we do in fact have monopolies. The UN is the biggest front of them all.

[Lliam]

You must have been born yesterday if you can't even address the question. Your last sentence is the only thing that came close.
I don't need a lecture on the obvious.

[Drewtate]

You must have been born yesterday. There is no food shortage, farmers grow more than the world needs, a lot more. The food is wasted, left to rot and thrown out if unsold. Here in America there are so many obese who eat 3 times what they need.

[Lliam]

So you assume that the reason I shared this is because I support the UN/corporate take over of the food supply? What a dumb ass.

[Anonymous]

I sure hope not.