Global Food Governance

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariela Maidana-Eletti
Keyword(s):  
Food Governance ◽  
Global Food

scholarly journals UN Food Systems Summit 2021: Dismantling Democracy and Resetting Corporate Control of Food Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Canfield ◽  
Molly D. Anderson ◽  
Philip McMichael
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Sustainable Food Systems ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Food Governance ◽  
United Nations Food ◽  
Systems Transformation ◽  
High Level ◽  
Global Food

This article analyzes the development and organization of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), which is being convened by UN Secretary General António Guterres in late 2021. Although few people will dispute that global food systems need transformation, it has become clear that the Summit is instead an effort by a powerful alliance of multinational corporations, philanthropies, and export-oriented countries to subvert multilateral institutions of food governance and capture the global narrative of “food systems transformation.” This article places the upcoming Summit in the context of previous world food summits and analyzes concerns that have been voiced by many within civil society. It elaborates how the current structure and forms of participant recruitment and public engagement lack basic transparency and accountability, fail to address significant conflicts of interest, and ignore human rights. As the COVID-19 pandemic illuminates the structural vulnerabilities of the neoliberal model of food systems and the consequences of climate change for food production, a high-level commitment to equitable and sustainable food systems is needed now more than ever. However, the authors suggest that the UNFSS instead seems to follow a trajectory in which efforts to govern global food systems in the public interest has been subverted to maintain colonial and corporate forms of control.

Transnational Agrarian Movements, Food Sovereignty, and Legal Mobilization

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscilla Claeys ◽  
Karine Peschard
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Legal Mobilization ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Food Governance ◽  
Legal Strategies ◽  
Global Food

In this chapter, we analyse a diversity of legal mobilizations by contemporary agrarian movements, from the creation of new human rights to direct participation in global food governance, the institutionalization of food sovereignty, civil disobedience, and peoples’ tribunals. Our main argument is that there is a need to expand the scope and methods of research in law and anthropology to account for the diversity of actors and alliances, their innovative legal strategies, the different scales, and the multiplicity of institutional and extra-institutional arenas in which transnational agrarian movements engage with the law in their struggles against capitalism and neoliberalism. To document and analyse social movement innovations, lawyers and anthropologists must engage with transnational, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches, and critically reflect on their methods, roles, and positionalities as social actors involved in social justice struggles.

scholarly journals Global food governance in an era of crisis

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 326
Author(s):  
Jennifer Clapp ◽  
Annette Desmarais ◽  
Matias Margulis
Keyword(s):  
Food Governance ◽  
Global Food

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scholarly journals Editorial: Resetting Power in Global Food Governance: The UN Food Systems Summit

Development ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maywa Montenegro de Wit ◽  
Matt Canfield ◽  
Alastair Iles ◽  
Molly Anderson ◽  
Nora McKeon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Food Governance ◽  
Global Food
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