A webinar exploring corporate courts (ISDS) – the secretive tribunals written into trade deals that enable corporations to sue countries for billions of pounds.
The UN Food Systems Summit 2021 will achieve nothing meaningful while its agenda is shaped, and its language defined, by the very corporations that have engineered our current — broken — food systems.
The global food system is in crisis. The reason? Food being treated as just another commodity to be traded, rather than as a fundamental human right. The scale of hunger and malnutrition across the world today is the direct result of our global economy in which hundreds of millions of small farmers, fisherfolk, pastoralists and indigenous people face ruin - because of the hijacking of the food system by large corporate agribusiness and food retailers.