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How big corporations and Bill Gates took over the UN food Summit

Originally published: How big corporations and Bill Gates took over the UN food Summit on September 23, 2021 by Nils McCune and Camila Escalante (more by How big corporations and Bill Gates took over the UN food Summit) (Posted Sep 27, 2021)

Large corporations and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation took over the United Nations Food Systems Summit, abandoning small farmers on behalf of Big Ag companies, endangering food sovereignty.
Sustainable food systems are possible outside corporate agriculture

Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on July 28, 2021 by Jyotsna Singh (more by Peoples Dispatch) | (Posted Jul 31, 2021)

The United Nations Food Systems Summit has become one of the most controversial events of this year due to corporate take over. Civil society activists came together during the pre-summit to register their protest.
Beware UN Food Systems Summit trojan horse

Originally published: JOMO on July 25, 2021 (more by JOMO) |

In the last dozen years after the 2008 world food price spike, the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has become an inclusive forum for civil society and corporate interests to debate how best to advance food security. Unsurprisingly, CFS has long addressed food systems.