The latest “private/public partnership” at the UN, the Food Systems Summit on Thursday, September 23rd, is being opposed and challenged by our WILPF allies at the international Food Sovereignty Alliance.
They contend that the agenda for the summit has been shaped entirely by the Big Ag corporations trying to control our food, with the false premise that petro-chemicals and GMO-modified seeds (terminator seeds that are designed to reject natural regeneration) are the only way to ‘feed the world’. Small family farmers, organic farmers, sustainable agriculture proponents, environmentalists and farmworkers had no input into the meeting, and are being excluded and silenced.
In an effort to prevent expected pushback, the UN Food Program delayed announcing the date of their virtual summit until very recently, preventing a large organized in-person presence in New York. But our allies are asking WILPF members and others to take to social media to decry this profiteer-driven corporatized vision of the future of food.
