Meeting hijacked by corporate agenda that puts profits over development, critics charge
Most of the world’s farmers and fishers will not be represented at a crucial international conference on food systems after mounting concern that the meeting is being hijacked by a corporate agenda that is more interested in profits than development.
In SA the government prepared for the summit by hastily calling online meetings where the voices of small-scale fishers, street and bakkie traders, farm workers and all but a handful of small-scale farmers were absent. These meetings adopted a value-chains, corporate and industrial-farming approach. In SA, which remains the world’s most unequal society, there are winners and losers in a food and agriculture system shaped by government policy-making and regulatory responses that have entrenched powerful interests.
Under Covid-19 food prices have risen 60% higher than core inflation. It is evident that increased production and profits in the food system can be accompanied by greater food insecurity and hunger. The state of disaster was more disastrous for some than others.
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