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Special topic of this week: The Food Systems Summit
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The COVID-19 pandemic hits harder urban areas and women
Little by little, the magnitude of the impact of the pandemic on poverty and hunger in the world is getting clearer.
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Bill Gates: philanthropy or business as usual?
The dark side of the greatest “philanthropist” in history.
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In France, the debate on the future of food and agriculture just scratches the surface
A faulty law illustrates the blindess of stakeholders, incapable to go beyond the signals of the market and agree on crucial decisions. [read]
Sustainable Food Systems <=> Sustainable Diets
A Special Issue of the International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food explores how social sciences can contribute to the complex endeavour of changing consumption habits as part and parcel of transforming the food system. [read]
Opinion: Personal reflections on food summitry by Andrew MacMillan
The UN Food Systems Summit: a serious attempt to improve global food management or a squabble for power over how we grow food and eat it?
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Opinions: Who will decide what we will be eating in the future?
by George-André Simon
UN Pre-Summit on Food Systems (Rome, 26-28 July 2021) - Will the private sector continue to be a substitute for governments (and us) for deciding what is in our plate?
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Facts and figures on world food insecurity and malnutrition - The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic (New)
The COVID-19 pandemic is a revealer of what is wrong in the way the world has been organising its food systems. [read]
Opinions: Food Systems Summit’s Scientistic Threat (New)
by Jomo Kwame Sundaram
The “systemic and science-based” solutions touted by the Summit’s prime movers will advance transnational corporations’ influence and undermine UN-led multilateralism, its institutions and global governance. [read]
On Thursday, September 23, the Food Systems Summit will be held in New York. The four articles below will help understand what is really at stake at this event misleadingly presented by its prime movers as ‘the People’s Summit’.
