FIAN, Food First Information and Action Network (2024) A critical analysis of the UNFSS roadmap for “corporate accountability” of food systems transformation: A dangerous façade of industry aligned rhetoric, which neglects international human rights standards and marginalizes front line voices. FIAN International.
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The UN Food Systems Coordination Hub presented in June a roadmap to develop a corporate accountability framework for food systems transformation. This initiative goes back to the call to action presented by the UN Secretary General as an outcome of the 2023 UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS+2) during which he identified six priority areas, one of which was “promoting increased engagement of businesses, including through public-private partnerships, to shape the sustainability of food systems and establish and strengthen accountability mechanisms, recognizing their centrality for food systems”. The Hub developed this roadmap with the support of a group of stakeholders. The idea is to adopt a framework that “will provide the structure, including principles, exclusionary criteria, a list of parameters defining good corporate practices in food systems transformation and the ways to collect commitments and assess performance.” (p.4 UNFSS Hub, 2024) The unwillingness of the UN Secretary General to tackle unjust power relations in food systems in the UNFSS sparked a controversy that continues to this day. The global food sovereignty movement has questioned both the strong involvement of the corporate sector in the preparation of the Summit, and the prioritization of approaches aligned with corporate interests in the transformation of food systems, particularly the prominent role of digital technologies, to the detriment of policies that seek to reduce existing inequalities in food systems. These concerns were expressed by the People’s Autonomous Response to the first UN Food Systems Summit in 2021. But it was not only civil society organizations and Indigenous Peoples who protested this corporate bias. Similar concerns have also been raised by scientists and researchers, as evidenced by statements of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES Food) and the independent platform Healthy Societies, as well as by three UN Special Rapporteurs on Human Rights.
| Item Type: | Documents |
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| Keywords: | Human Rights, Mitigation, Governance, Legislation, Policy, Stakeholders, FIAN |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Kokila ICSF Krish |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2024 06:10 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 06:10 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/20729 |
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