FOOD SYSTEMS 4 PEOPLE

Despite the increasing recognition that industrial food systems are failing on so many fronts, agribusiness and food corporations are trying to maintain control. On the one hand, they are coopting our language. The World Economic Forum is also calling for a "transformation of food systems", and the FSS is self-proclaiming as a "people's summit". On the other hand, they are deploying digitalisation, artificial intelligence and other information and communication technologies to promote a new wave of resource grabbing, wealth extraction and labor exploitation; and to re-structure food systems towards greater concentration of power and even-more globalized value chains... To overcome the glob al food crisis, we need real food systems chang e for people and the planet The UN Food Systems Summit has missed the mark, disguising corporate-driven agendas as transformative action. We refuse to stand by as the United Nations opens its door wider to corporate influence without an accountability..