{"id":57848,"date":"2021-05-13T08:33:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T13:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57848"},"modified":"2021-05-13T08:33:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T13:33:20","slug":"we-should-all-be-worried-about-the-united-nations-food-systems-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57848","title":{"rendered":"We Should All Be Worried About The United Nations Food Systems Summit."},"content":{"rendered":"
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We Should All Be Worried About The United Nations Food Systems Summit.<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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A battle for the future of food is already underway. There\u2019s still time to change the outcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Image: John Keatley. Graphic: AGC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

L<\/span>ater this year, the United Nations is set to hold a historic Food Systems Summit, recognizing the need for urgent action to disrupt business-as-usual practices in the food system. But far from serving as a meaningful avenue for much-needed change, the summit is shaping up to facilitate increased corporate capture of the food system. So much so, that peasant and indigenous-led organizations and civil society groups are organizing an independent counter-summit in order to have their voices heard.<\/p>\n

At the heart of the opp<\/span>osition is the fact that the conference has been co-opted by corporate interests who are pushing towards a highly industrialized style of agriculture promoted by supporters of the\u00a0Green Revolution<\/a>, an approach that is meant to eradicate hunger by increasing production through hybrid seeds and other agrochemical inputs. It has been widely discredited for failing to achieve its goals and damaging the environment. The Summit\u2019s concept paper perpetuates the same Green Revolution narrative \u2014 it is dominated by topics like AI-controlled farming systems, gene editing, and other high-tech solutions geared towards large-scale agriculture, as well as finance and market mechanisms to address food insecurity, with methods like\u00a0agroecology<\/a>\u00a0notably absent or minimally discussed.<\/p>\n

A Crisis of Participation<\/strong><\/p>\n

But the problem is not only the subject matter that the conference has put on the agenda. It\u2019s also the remarkably undemocratic way of choosing who gets to participate, and in what ways. The agenda was set behind closed doors at Davos, the World Economic Forum\u2019s exclusive conference. As Sofia Monsalve, Secretary General of FIAN International puts it, \u201cThey have cherry picked representatives of civil society. We don\u2019t know why, or which procedure they used.\u201d<\/p>\n

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We Should All Be Worried About The United Nations Food Systems Summit. A battle for the future of food is already underway. There\u2019s still time to change the outcome. Image: John Keatley. Graphic: AGC Later this year, the United Nations is set to hold a historic Food Systems Summit, recognizing the need for urgent action […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[31231,3685,1912,7276,822,31230,826],"class_list":["post-57848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-a-growing-culture","tag-corporate-interests","tag-food-production","tag-food-systems","tag-un","tag-un-food-summit","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57849,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57848\/revisions\/57849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}