Around a billion people go to sleep hungry despite peasants producing enough food to feed 1.5 times our global population. This is the result of decades of corporate domination in the food systems supply chain, and not something that can be easily fixed by ‘innovations’ or ‘inclusivity’ defined by the same global elite that has extracted profits from a basic human need—food.

The Covid-19 pandemic both exposed the structural flaws of the global food systems and underscored the urgent need for a truly essential transformation.

We are yet again at a critical turning point in transforming food and worldwide.  It should not be just because the United Nations and intergovernmental processes decided to adopt a supposedly “food systems approach” in transforming the sector.

An unjust, inequitable, unhealthy and unsustainable food system brought about by global monopolies in agricultural production and trade, by decades of global land grabs and environmental devastation intended for profit, by unequal treaties and agreements like those under the WTO, by neoliberal reforms bankrolled by the IMF-WB, by national policies that perpetuate corporate and landlord control of land and agricultural trade, and proliferation of capitalist farms at the expense of smallholder producers and landless rural peoples. This is colonialism in action, with its laws and inherent contradictions underlying the anarchic and wasteful production and consumption of the world’s food.Continue reading→