bears a major responsibility—the U.N. continues to empower corporations. What it should be doing is addressing issues such as land concentration, so that peasant agroecology can have a real chance to flourish and make a significant contribution to tackling hunger, climate change, and biodiversity loss.A dystopian future where a handful of corporations control everything we eat is just around the corner, if we do not resist now.
The global governance of food is being hijacked by corporate interests. The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization receives less thanbudget from the world’s governments, making it dependent on “voluntary contributions”—including from corporations and their proxies—for the rest. We are facing a stark choice between unsustainable, exploitative, corporate-controlled food systems and diverse, locally sourced ecological food that prioritises the needs and rights of those most affected by the hunger, climate, and health crises.