The kind of governance existing at global, regional, national and local levels will be key in achieving a desirable future for food. The sharing of power between people and their representatives (within the political and civil society sphere), on the one hand, and private corporations, on the other, as well as alliances that will be forged, will be of crucial importance.
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2 January 2025 – Politics, environment and climate: public awareness, repression and inaction – Although world population is giving an increasing importance to environmental issues, governments are intensifying repression against environmental and climate protests, and remain inactive… [read]
26 February 2023 – The Brazilian “Cerrado”: a textbook case of “modern” agricultural development based on resources grabbing, collusion and violence. Brazil’s agricultural “miracle” and its dark side… [read]
February 2023 – Science, what science ? A problem or part of the solution? When the industry doctors science for profit – In the 16th century, Rabelais was already warning us that “Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition”. This statement is true more than ever nowadays, and one may add to it without any hesitation, “and of the world”…. [read]
16 October 2021 – Public support to agriculture has been promoting unhealthy and polluting products and generating more inequality in the world – A transition to more sustainable food systems (economically, socially and environmentally) will require a total reengineering of current support policies. [read]
September 2021 – Opinions: A strange Summit by George-André Simon – United Nations Food Systems Summit (New York, 23 September 2021). A programme-less, objective-less, commitment-less Summit that masterly evades the issues that matter; a new multilateralism dissolved in egoism, mistrust and false independence. [read]
September 2021 – Opinions: Food Systems Summit’s Scientistic Threat by Jomo Kwame Sundaram. [read]
22 June 2021 – Bill Gates: philanthropy or business as usual? The dark side of the greatest “philanthropist” in history [read]
30 March 2021 – Responsible businesses or greenwashing? The certification industry in support of multinationals More rigorous laws and certification processes might allow consumers to identify companies and products that respect satisfactory social, environmental and health norms. [read]
10 December 2020 – Sustainable food systems: 2021 may be a turning point for food, … or it may not – Will 2021 be the year when the private sector will take the lead in thinking the future of our food? This would certainly have very serious implications in many respects. [read]
13 July 2019 – Being a lobbyist : accept to accuse sustainable agriculture in order to help develop profits of firms that fund you – Mixing freely carefully selected statistical, ideological, scientific and moral arguments to illustrate their point of view in defiance of any rigour, lobbyists promote ideas – and so-called solutions – that are damaging for the future of world food. [read]
11 June 2019 – Protecting our health and environment – Is justice to substitute rules and regulations? In the face of the inability of Parliaments and Governments to take appropriate measures, consumers and citizens have been obliged to invoke the third power : Justice. [read]
December 2018 – Opinion: Big Business Capturing UN SDG Agenda? By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury [read]
November 2018 – Privatisation of development assistance: integrating further agriculture into the world market – The growing role left by governments to the privage sector transforms modalities of agricultural development in poor countries to the detriment of the mass of farmers who are, to a large extent, excluded. [read]
6 February 2017 – The World Economic Forum’s “New Vision for Agriculture” is moving ahead on the ground…Make large multinationals the masters of the food and agriculture sector, by funding them in part by rich countries’ taxpayers and to the detriment of hundreds of millions of small family farmers… [read]
17 July 2015 – Food Security Governance: empowering communities, regulating corporations, by Nora McKeon – Less than one year after publishing “The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: a coup for corporate capital?”, Nora McKeon is back with a new book “Food Security Governance: empowering communities, regulating corporations”. [read]
1 July 2015 – In the US, the industrial food and agriculture sector spent hundreds of millions on communication to influence the media, consumers and policy. What about in Europe? [read]