Held in 2021, the Food Systems Summit has given an increasing role in global food governance to the international private sector, represented by the World Economic Forum. In this context, it can be expected that, in the future, technoscientific solutions proposed by multinationals to solve global food issues will be of central importance. Simultaneously, the processes established under ‘New multilateralism’, dominated by vested interests, will stifle the voice of the mass of producers and consumers.
Opinion: A strange Summit (September 2021)
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May 2021 – Opinion: Struggle for the Future of Food by Jomo Kwame Sundaram – Producers and consumers seem helpless as food comes under fast growing corporate control. If trends continue, food will be increasingly controlled by ‘hi-tech’, data processing, asset management and agribusiness corporations, at the expense of billions of farmers and consumers. [read]
April 2020 – Opinion: Green Counter-Revolution in Africa? by Jomo Kwame Sundaram. Many millions of dollars spent on fertilizers and seed subsidies in Africa have not delivered their promised outcomes. Agricultural input subsidies have benefitted agribusiness transnationals at the expense of farmers, consumers and governments. [read]