Strong risk of corporate control of food systems

“The growing entrepreneurial influence within the FAO and its change of course in recent years have a significant effect in the global marketplace, because the principle of accountability and, above all, clear rules to ensure transparency and effective safeguards against conflicts of interest are being lost.”

This is the salient passage of the article hosted by our friends at Comune-info.

Global South peasant organizations, social movements, indigenous peoples and civil society organizations strongly oppose the control of global food governance by multinational corporations and the so-called multi-stakeholder model as set out in the agenda of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS).