It has never been so important for humanity, for animals and for all life on Earth to manage our food systems in a genuinely sustainable way and I hope everyone around the world will join me in engaging with the UN Food Systems Summit to encourage the systemic change so urgently needed in...
UN Food System Summit Fails to Address Real Healthy and Sustainable Diets ChallengesConsumptionHealthy eatingUltra-processed foodsFood and nutrition governanceCorporate captureEvidence of the impacts of corporate food systems on people's health raised concerns about the multiple outcomes of malnutrition and ...
This article analyzes the development and organization of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), which is being convened by UN Secretary General António Guterres in late 2021. Although few people will dispute that global food systems need transformation, it has become clear that the Summ...
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday announced the appointment of Agnes Kalibata of Rwanda as his Special Envoy for the 2021 Food Systems Summit. According to a statement, the summit aims to "generate momentum, expand the knowledge and...
Given the lack of progress toward ending global hunger and malnutrition by 2030, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will convene a Food Systems Summit in New York on September 23. The meeting has been billed as an opportunity to discuss bold new measures that will transform the way the world...
He noted that while there is some overlap between the two processes, they are broadly focused on different countries -- the G20 is made up of the world's largest economies while the UN Food Systems Summit is focused mostly on the world's most vulnerable countries -- which means that the...
Dongyu Qu, director-general of the the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization Wiebe Draijer, chairman of the managing board at Rabobank Ramon Laguarta, CEO of Carlos Alvarado Quesada, president of Costa Rica Agnes Kalibata, special envoy for the United Nations' Food Systems Summit ...
This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team explores the controversy surrounding the UN’s food systems summit with the help of IPES-Food’s Nick Jacobs and Attila Szocs of small farmers association European Coordination Via Campesina. The Commission gets in touch with its hippy side on the Autumn ...
“The United Nation Food System Summit has become a clear playground where corporate interests have decided to stamp the authority in the food system” addsEdie Mukiibi,Slow Food vice president. “Industrial agriculture with its unjust practices like land grabbing, deforestation, eviction ...
The United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), Pre-Summit underway in Rome and online this week, is advocating a so-called UN-backed international dietary framework that ‘allows’ for the consumption of no more than 14g of red meat per day – equivalent to the size of three blueberries....