UN Food Systems summit a sham

Friends of the Earth International and over 500 other organizations are boycotting the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), arguing that the event is a corporate-led effort to maintain control over food governance through false solutions and undemocratic processes.

• Friends of the Earth International and more than 500 organizations, including scientists, academics, and activists, are boycotting the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) scheduled for 26 to 28 July in Rome. They characterize the summit as a "thinly veiled attempt" by northern countries, philanthro-capitalists like the Gates Foundation and the World Economic Forum, and corporations to dominate food governance.
• The boycotting organizations claim the UNFSS promotes failed corporate proprietary technologies—including gene editing, biotechnology, and a "digital cornucopia"—and uses narratives like "Nature Positive Food" to replace agroecology, which they argue allows corporations to continue destructive activities via "nature based solutions" that financialise and grab territories.
• The movement for food sovereignty proposes an alternative transformation of food systems based on agroecology. This vision includes implementing binding regulations to tackle corporate power, ending the use of risky technologies and agrotoxics, redirecting public funding toward agroecology, and ensuring governments protect the Right to Food.

APA

FOEIAdmin (2021). UN Food Systems summit a sham. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/un-food-systems-summit-a-sham/

Chicago

FOEIAdmin. UN Food Systems summit a sham. Friends of the Earth International, 2021. https://www.foei.org/un-food-systems-summit-a-sham/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{foeiadmin2021food, author = {FOEIAdmin}, title = {{UN Food Systems summit a sham}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2021}, month = jul, url = {https://www.foei.org/un-food-systems-summit-a-sham/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }