Reports from the People's Autonomous Response to the UN Food Systems Summit

Press releases

Social Movements and Indigenous Peoples Oppose the UN Food Systems Summit and Call for True Food Systems Change

17 July 2023

Ahead of next week’s United Nations Food Systems Summit stocktaking event, the largest global food justice movements, small-scale food producer organizations, and Indigenous Peoples, representing millions of people across the world, have released a new statement denouncing the United Nations’ controversial approach to tackling hunger and malnutrition.

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People who produce most of the world’s food continue to fight against agribusiness-led UN food summit

21 September 2021

An ever-increasing number of voices from outside and inside the Summit, including governments, academia and the UN, share the view that the self-proclaimed “People’s Summit” is destined for failure.

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Thousands mobilize to call for food systems that empower people, not companies

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UN Food Systems Pre-Summit falls short on climate, hunger crisis, COVID-19, and food systems transformation, say counter-mobilization participants, totalling almost 9,000 people.

3 August 2021

Hundreds of grassroots organizations to oppose the UN Food Systems Summit

Civil society and Indigenous Peoples’ organizations launch a global counter-mobilization against the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit from 25 to 28 July 2021 in Rome and online.

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19 July 2021

Articles and reports

Flagship UN Food Systems Summit Accused of ‘Selling the Corporate and Industrial Project’
Michaela Herrmann | Desmog
3 August 2023
The UN’s “Stocktaking Moment” provided cover for industrial agriculture’s continued harms, critics claim.

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Ernüchternde Bilanz des UN-Ernährungsgipfels
 Astrid Ehrenhauser | Tages Spiegel
27 July 2023
Staaten, Organisationen, Unternehmen und Zivilgesellschaft kamen für drei Tage in Rom zusammen, um über die Zukunft unserer Ernährungssysteme zu diskutieren. 

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Un quinto del mondo è malnutrito. Fao: “Il sistema alimentare è malato, crescono gli affamati e l’inquinamento”
Francesco De Augustinis | Huffington Post Italia 
27 July 2023
Il cibo è responsabile di un terzo delle emissioni serra e del 90% della deforestazione tropicale.

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Split on Africa Big-Agri sees boycott at UN food summit
Francesco De Augustinis | Split
27 July 2023
Where is the global food system headed? The different responses inside and outside the UN Food Systems Summit in Rome

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Split on Africa Big-Agri sees boycott at UN food summit
Francesco De Augustinis | EU Observer
27 July 2023
The global food system is on the verge of failure: it is contributing in a decisive way to the environmental crisis and is failing in its main goal, to guarantee the right to food for the entire world population.

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Hunger und Unterernährung: Die Hungerkurve zeigt nach oben
Frank Braßel | Der Freitag
27 July 2023
Die UN-Organisation für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft soll helfen, den Hunger in der Welt zu bekämpfen. Eine Allianz zwischen den USA und China gewährt Agrarmultis Einfluss auf die Organisation. Immer mehr Menschen leiden an Unterernährung.

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Governare il diritto all’alimentazione
Transform! Italia 
26 July 2023
Gli Stati hanno il dovere di proteggere, rispettare e realizzare tali diritti e possono essere chiamati a rispondere se non lo fanno.

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Intervista di Ivana Borsotto
Radio Milano Popolare
26 July 2023

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Big agribusiness corporations have covertly captured key talks on the future of global food systems
Hannah Sharland | The Canary 
25 July 2023
If you needed a reminder that corporations rule the world, look no further than the United Nations’ (UN) answer to the planet’s broken food system. 

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L’Onu e gli errori sulla fame nel mondo: adesso fermi davvero le multinazionali
La Stampa
24 July 2023
Più di due miliardi di persone vivono senza il cibo, che è un diritto. Il vertice delle Nazioni Unite al via oggi a Roma non “venda” i più poveri.

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Petrini: «Il cibo dev’essere un diritto, non un bene da scambiare in Borsa»
Slow Food 
24 July 2023
Per sfamare otto miliardi di persone, e in prospettiva dieci, la strada è tanto chiara quanto rivoluzionaria: smettere di inseguire il profitto e cominciare a difendere la produzione alimentare, la terra da cui essa dipende e le persone che la coltivano.

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