{"id":59566,"date":"2021-09-28T08:32:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T13:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59566"},"modified":"2021-09-28T08:32:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T13:32:16","slug":"the-fight-over-food-at-the-uns-food-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59566","title":{"rendered":"The fight over food at the UN\u2019s Food Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The fight over food at the UN\u2019s Food Summit<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Food Summit image via the International Science Council<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The UN\u2019s\u00a0Food Systems Summit<\/a>\u00a0was held last week in New York. This sounds like it ought to be a good thing, given the sense of impending crisis around the food sector. But a lot of people aren\u2019t happy about it. There have been protests by people who say they have been excluded from the process, critical op-ed articles, and pre-summit withdrawals by some invited stakeholders.<\/p>\n

At\u00a0The Counter<\/em>\u00a0Lela Nargi\u00a0wrote a good explainer<\/a>\u00a0of what\u2019s going on:<\/p>\n

At the pre-summit, global leaders declared intentions to forge an international road map for the future of agriculture on a rapidly changing planet. They were \u201cexpected to step up and launch bold new actions, solutions, partnerships, and strategies\u201d to vastly improve food and ag systems. \u201cThat\u2019s where the decisions (were) made,\u201d explained professor Molly Anderson about the decision to protest the pre-summit. \u201cThe cake (was) baked at the pre-summit and the summit will be the celebration where they eat the cake.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2018Tech-heavy, corporate centric\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anderson has some skin in this game. She is a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food), which has withdrawn its participation in the Summit, criticising \u2018opaque methods of decision-making and a favoring of tech-heavy, corporate-centric private sector voices.\u2019<\/p>\n

At heart, this dispute is about competing values and visions of a food future. Anderson\u2019s perspective is that the UN Summit is over-interested in tech food futures such as digitisation, gene editing, and precision agriculture, which \u201cwon\u2019t help the poorest and hungriest people in the world very much, and will make the gap between the very poor and hungry and the wealthy even wider than it is now.\u201d In contrast:<\/p>\n

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The fight over food at the UN\u2019s Food Summit Food Summit image via the International Science Council The UN\u2019s\u00a0Food Systems Summit\u00a0was held last week in New York. This sounds like it ought to be a good thing, given the sense of impending crisis around the food sector. But a lot of people aren\u2019t happy about […]<\/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":[4,5,7],"tags":[1912,1943,5720,822,31230,826],"class_list":["post-59566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-geopolitics","category-survival-2","tag-food-production","tag-food-sovereignty","tag-industrial-agriculture","tag-un","tag-un-food-summit","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59566","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=59566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59567,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59566\/revisions\/59567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}