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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 16/10/2026

🌍 This #WorldFoodDay, let’s recognise the women who keep us fed. Women perform 76% of unpaid care work – cooking, feeding, caring for families – that keeps the world fed. Work that is invisible & undervalued. It’s time to value #FoodWork, paid & unpaid. ⚒️ Our report ipes-food.org/report/food-...

Unpaid care work underpins food work.
76% of unpaid care work that sustains life is undertaken by women.
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 16/10/2026

What happens when billionaire philanthropists fail? Who holds them accountable? The Gates Foundation invested $1.5bn in African industrial agriculture. Fertiliser use doubled. Hunger rose. The programme keeps getting more funding. @rajpatel.org in @financialtimes.com: www.ft.com/content/fff4...

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 15/10/2026

🎧 Two years ago #FuelToFork podcast explored just how dependent our food is on fossil fuels. Now disruption in the Strait of Hormuz is putting that dependence back in the spotlight. What’s changed? Are our food systems any better prepared for the next shock? 👉 Listen ipes-food.org/fuel-to-fork...

Dire Straits: Hormuz, fertilizers, and food
Bonus episode
Fuel To Fork podcast

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 14/10/2026

What does the Strait of Hormuz have to do with food prices? 🎧 A new #FuelToFork podcast episode explores how fossil fuel & fertilizer disruptions ripple through #FoodSystems – whether we’re ready for the next shock. 🎙️ Dire Straits: Hormuz, Fertilizers & Food Listen: fueltofork.com/episode11

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 08/10/2026

✊ Food worker exploitation is not inevitable. Our #FoodWork report sets out 5 priorities for change: ✊ Build worker power ⚖️ Secure decent work 🛂 Equal rights for migrant workers 🏢 Rein in corporate power ❤️ Value food work 👉 Read the report: ipes-food.org/report/food-...

5 priorities for dignified food work

1. Build worker power
2. Secure decent work
3. Equal rights for migrant workers
4. Rein in corporate power
5. Value food work

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 06/10/2026

3/ And pressures are intensifying: 🌡️ Climate change is making work more dangerous 📱 AI & surveillance are creating new forms of control 🏢 Corporate concentration is weakening worker power

Six forces worsening food worker exploitation. Gender, class and race-based discrimination; restrictive migration policies; consolidated corporate power; digital technologies; climate breakdown; weakened public oversight.

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 06/10/2026

2/ Low pay. Wage theft. Dangerous work. Forced labour. Discrimination. Insecure jobs. This isn’t accidental. Today’s food systems are built around keeping labour cheap and workers disempowered.

Exploitation is rife across the entire food chain - fishing, farmworkers, meat processing workers, school meals, food service workers, delivery drivers

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 06/10/2026

1/ Who are the workers behind the food on our plates? What is that work really like? 1.4 billion people work across food systems – the world’s largest workforce. Yet food systems exploit more workers than any other sector. #FoodWork ipes-food.org/report/food-... 🧵

More people work in food systems than any other part of the global economy. Nearly 1.4 billion people work in food systems - 2 out of every 5 workers

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 05/10/2026

Our food systems cannot function without workers. So why are so many exploited? Low pay. Unsafe work. Insecure jobs. Wage theft. Forced labour. Our new #FoodWork report exposes the exploitation running through the global food chain, and how to end it. ipes-food.org/report/food-... #LabourRights

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 05/10/2026

⚒️ Behind every meal is someone’s work. But what is that work really like? 1.4 billion people work in food systems – yet no other sector exploits more workers. Our new #FoodWork report exposes why: exploitation is built into the system. 👉 ipes-food.org/report/food-...

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 25/09/2026

“It’s not a food system; it’s an agribusiness financial complex.” “If we want to transform the food system, we need to recognise that finance is really at the heart of it.” Powerful words from Jeff Conant on the financial interests behind Big Food & Big Ag. news.thin-ink.net/p/the-opacit...

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 25/09/2026

Behind every meal is the work of many people. But what is that work really like? 📆 Join us on 5 Oct for the launch of #FoodWork, our new report exposing exploitation across global food chains. What will it take to guarantee dignified work for all? 👉 Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

FOOD WORK.
Webinar. 5 October 2026. 13:00 UTC
Report Launch. The workers behind our food and the exploitation they face.
REGISTER NOW!
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 22/09/2026

Who really owns Big Food? A new @foeus.bsky.social report follows the money behind the world’s biggest agrifood firms. 22% have just 3 asset management companies – Vanguard, BlackRock, or State Street – among their owners. Transforming food means tackling financial power. foodlandmoney.org

Top 20 Owners of Agro-commodities Sector. Berkshire Hathaway 8.53%. Vanguard 7.83%. BlackRock 6.81%

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 11/09/2026

We know what’s wrong with our food system. So why is it so hard to change? New research argues that health, climate & social harms can’t be fixed without tackling the corporate & financial power that produces them – and shifts the costs onto everyone else. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 20/08/2026

🥵 If you’ve struggled through this summer’s heatwaves, spare a thought for the millions of farmworkers harvesting our food. ⚠️ Dangerous heat is now the leading health threat facing farmworkers. Coming soon: our report on labour exploitation in food systems. #ClimateChange #Farmworkers

Food and farm workers face rising dangerous heat worldwide. Map shows the rise in dangerous heat days since the 1970s, caused in part by climate crisis. Heat is th emost common health threat facing farmworkers.

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 18/06/2026

Europe’s dependence on synthetic fertilisers is also a dependence on fossil gas. Between 2019–2024, €16.4bn was spent on fertiliser that generated no food, while synthetic nitrogen use caused an estimated €233.7bn in environmental damage. zerocarbon-analytics.org/nature/food-...

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 11/06/2026

In a world that produces enough food for everyone, Jean Ziegler refused to accept hunger as normal. His voice helped establish the right to food as a human right and inspired generations to challenge the systems that keep people hungry. Rest in peace. #RightToFood #RIP #JeanZiegler

Picture of Jean Ziegler.
"Hunger is in no way inevitable. Every child who starves to death is murdered."
Jean Ziegler
19 April 1934 - 10 June 2026

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 04/06/2026

📘Já disponível em 🇧🇷português! A Nova Geopolítica da Alimentação explora como os governos podem construir uma autossuficiência resiliente, estabilizar os preços dos alimentos e reduzir sua vulnerabilidade diante de choques geopolíticos, climáticos e comerciais. 👉 ipes-food.org/pt/report/a-...

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 04/06/2026

📘Já disponível em 🇵🇹 português! A Nova Geopolítica da Alimentação explora como os governos podem construir uma autossuficiência resiliente, estabilizar os preços dos alimentos e reduzir sua vulnerabilidade diante de choques geopolíticos, climáticos e comerciais. 👉 ipes-food.org/pt/report/a-...

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 04/06/2026

📘¡Ya disponible en 🇪🇸español! La nueva geopolítica de la alimentación explora cómo los gobiernos pueden construir una autosuficiencia resiliente, estabilizar los precios de los alimentos y reducir su vulnerabilidad ante crisis geopolíticas, climáticas y comerciales. 👉 ipes-food.org/es/report/la...

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 04/06/2026

📘 Désormais disponible en 🇫🇷 français ! La nouvelle géopolitique de l’alimentation montre comment renforcer l’autonomie résiliente, stabiliser les prix alimentaires et faire face aux chocs géopolitiques, climatiques et commerciaux. 👉 ipes-food.org/fr/rapport/l...

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 04/06/2026

Food security is increasingly being shaped by geopolitics. 🌍 Our report The New Geopolitics of Food explores how governments can reduce vulnerability to shocks, stabilise food prices, and strengthen local food systems. Now available in: 🇫🇷FR 🇪🇸ES 🇧🇷PT 📘 ipes-food.org/report/the-n...

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 12/05/2026

Resilient self-reliance means food systems that can withstand shocks. Stronger local food systems. Support for farmers. Strategic food reserves. Fair trade. Public tools that keep food affordable when crises hit. These tools already exist. 📘 ipes-food.org/report/the-n...

Meeting the moment : building resilient food self reliance

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 11/05/2026

🚀Just launched: THE NEW GEOPOLITICS OF FOOD💥 Food prices & hunger are rising. Crisis after crisis exposes how fragile our global food systems have become. But governments have tools to stabilise markets & reduce vulnerability. We call it resilient self-reliance. 📘 ipes-food.org/report/the-n...

The New Geopolitics Of Food - Navigating policies for resilient self-reliance

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 21/04/2026

We cannot stabilise food prices without getting fossil fuels out of food systems. A stark warning from the FT: a new global food crisis is unfolding. "We need to loosen the grip of hydrocarbons on our food system… More sustainable farming is both possible & necessary" 👉 www.ft.com/content/3634...

Financial Times. The coming global food crisis. Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops.

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 11/04/2026

This week, IPES-Food panel members gathered to chart the future of food systems. In a time of crisis, transformation is urgent. It’s already happening – in fields, movements, and communities worldwide. We’re here to help it grow. #IPESFood #foodsystems #hope

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 02/04/2026

“Not farming regeneratively is utterly dangerous & shortsighted.” Fertiliser & fuel shocks are exposing the insecure fragility of industrial #FoodSystems. Low input farms that don't need chemical fertilisers are proving more resilient. 🔗 www.euronews.com/2026/03/28/e... #Agroecology #FoodSecurity

Europe's farms are reeling from the Iran war. Regenerative farmers saw it coming. The Iran war has sent fertiliser prices soaring - but these farmers aren't fazed. Euronews

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 02/04/2026

🙌 Congratulations to our friend & colleague Sofía Monsalve Suárez on her appointment as UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. A tireless advocate for food as a human right, not a commodity. At this critical moment, her leadership matters more than ever. #RightToFood #HumanRights

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 24/03/2026

Farmers are already building soil fertility, cutting reliance on synthetic fertilizers, and growing more resilient systems. This is #agroecology – and it works. As long as food depends on fossil fuels, hunger will always be one shock away. ipes-food.org/report/fuel-... #Fertilizer #FoodSecurity

Agroecological practices that enhance soil fertility and eliminate the need for synthetic fertilizers and pesticides

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 24/03/2026

This is the deeper issue: Our #foodsystem is hooked on fossil fuels. 🛢️A system tied to the price of oil means shocks in energy markets quickly become food crises. This vulnerability is built in. It's a choice. 🌱 It doesn’t have to be this way.

Fertilizer production relies overwhelmingly on fossil fuels.

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 24/03/2026

🌍 The fertilizer crisis unfolding following conflict in the #Gulf is a warning of a food price crisis to come. ➡️ A food system tied to the price of oil ➡️ Rising input costs for farmers ➡️ Higher and volatile food prices ➡️ Growing #hunger #Hormuz #fertilizer

Food, fertilizer, and fossil energy prices are deeply interlinked

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 23/03/2026

🐘How do we confront power in food systems? If we want transformation, we need to tackle who controls land, data & decisions. Join us 25 March with @thenewschool.bsky.social, @slowfoodhq.bsky.social & others. 📅 15:00 CET 🔗 event.newschool.edu/theelephanta... #FoodSystems #FoodSovereignty

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 23/03/2026

What happens when ships start running on food crops? ⚠️ More land pressure ⚠️ Higher food prices ⚠️ Greater strain on fragile food systems #Biofuels risk shifting the burden onto African countries least responsible for emissions. As IMO rules are shaped, this matters. 👉 ipes-food.org/shippings-bi...

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 18/03/2026

The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is not just an energy or war story. It is a #food story, with global consequences. Fertiliser dependency ties food systems to the price of oil. Breaking that dependence is now urgent. Read @rajpatel.org's piece for @civileats.com civileats.com/2026/03/17/o...

The Persian Gulf oil crisis IS A FOOD CRISIS. The fertilizer shock hasn't even hit yet, but the fossil fuel industry is still betting its future on our dependency.

When the Strait of Hormuz closes, here's what happens:
Energy prices spike
Fertilizer prices follow.
Redued harvests come a season later.
Food price inflation is brought to you by the price of oil.

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 02/03/2026

📈Oil prices are spiking after escalation around Iran. 🥣 Food prices likely next. 1/2 the world’s calories depend on synthetic fertilizer made from fossil #gas – 1/4 of that trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz. This is a food access issue. 👉 #FuelToFork ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 27/02/2026

Who defines the problem shapes the solution. In a time of climate & geopolitical instability, we cannot afford more tech that deepens dependency & concentrate power. We need to reclaim innovation. Redirect funding. Break up Big Tech power. 📖 ipes-food.org/report-summa... #HeadInTheCloud

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 26/02/2026

The real #innovation story is not in the cloud. It’s in farmers’ fields. Farmers & communities are 🌾restoring soils 🌱breeding climate-adapted crops 🐞managing pests ecologically 🌍 building resilience. Stop sidelining them. 📖 Read: ipes-food.org/report/head-... #HeadInTheCloud #agroecology

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 25/02/2026

🚨 Who controls the future of farming? #BigTech is betting 💰billions on AI, cloud platforms, precision tools. But this is: ⚠️driving farmers into debt ⚠️locking in high-cost systems ⚠️concentrating control over food. #Innovation isn’t neutral. 📖Read: ipes-food.org/report/head-... #HeadInTheCloud☁️

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 24/02/2026

🚨 Tomorrow: we launch HEAD IN THE CLOUD ☁️ Corporate-led digital tech is reshaping #agriculture at speed. But who sets the agenda? Who benefits? What’s at risk? 💻 Join our webinar to launch this landmark report 📅 25 Feb | 14:00 UTC 🔗 Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #FoodSystems

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 10/02/2026

🌱Who controls innovation in farming? #BigTech is tightening its grip on our #food. But real innovations are growing from the ground up. 📢 Join us to launch #HeadInTheCloud, a landmark report challenging the false promise of digital agriculture. 🗓️ 25 Feb 🔗 Register us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Head In The Cloud
Launch webinar.
25 Feburary 2026
14:00 UTC

Challenging the digital takeover of farming

In English, Espanol, francais, portugues

IPES-Food & Mcknight Foundation

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 27/01/2026

🥣 Half of 🇮🇳India can’t afford a healthy meal. 🛑 Industrial farming is failing – degrading soils, draining water, & deepening inequality. 🌾 But #agroecology offers a better path. 📅 Join the webinar: 9 Feb 🔗 swissaid.ch/en/articles/... #FoodSystems #India #RightToFood

Webinar: transforming food systems in India. How can agroecology lead to healthier diets, gender equity, decent livelihoods, and climate resilience?

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 06/01/2026

Starting 2026 strong – @ipes-food.org is heading to #ORFC2026 @orfc.bsky.social as a programme partner We’ll be hosting sessions on trade, climate justice, plastics, agtech, and corporate control in food systems. Come find us there! 👉 Details: ipes-food.org/oxford-real-...

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 16/12/2025

💥When #FoodPrices rise, so does inequality. New research shows price spikes in essentials hit the poorest hardest – while the rich barely feel it. “It’s a massive redistribution shock.” Food price stabilisation - not interest rate hikes - is essential. 👇 scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 16/12/2025

🌍 Industrial food production is fuelling climate chaos & ecological collapse – undermining the future of #food. Climate shocks are already pushing food prices up. It doesn’t have to be this way. 🌱 #Agroecology builds resilience & protects the planet. #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness #EUAgriFoodDays

Big agribusiness is fuelling climate chaos and wrecking the nature that farmers depend on. Let's protect the future of our food!
#FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 15/12/2025

Market concentration in #foodsystems is deepening, with serious consequences for farmers, consumers & food access. #BigAg monopolies drive up costs, limit choice, weaken farmer autonomy, & leave food systems exposed to shocks. Break them up. #EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness

Agribusiness monopolies drive up food prices & crush farmers. Let's take back control of our food!

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 04/12/2025

🌱 “Every summer I was sent to the rural areas, where I followed shepherds into the forest. Maybe that’s where I became an environmentalist.” Meet @ipes-food.org's expert Million Belay – from Merkato to movement leader for #Agroecology and #SeedSovereignty across Africa.👇 mailchi.mp/afsafrica.or...

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 27/11/2025

📈Inequality is rising. As #G20 meets, our @ksjomo.bsky.social lays out the facts: ⚖️Top 10% own 74% of wealth 💰1% gained 41% of new wealth since 2000 🏥 Public assets are shrinking Inequality isn’t inevitable – it’s a policy choice. 🔗 www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/cont...

“There is now a consensus that inequality is detrimental to economic progress, and reducing inequality is better for the economy.

“Yet no serious effort has been made by the G20, IMF, or OECD to reduce it.”

Jomo Kwame Sundaram / IPES-Food

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 26/11/2025

🌱 Who controls the future of seeds? At #ITPGRFA talks in Lima, the inclusion of Digital Sequence Information (DSI) is a flashpoint. 🚨Without it, seed companies could patent farmers’ seeds as private data: no consent, no benefit sharing. 📢Bring DSI under the Treaty. 👉 twn.my/title2/biotk...

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 24/11/2025

#COP30 ended with #FoodSystems missing from the deal—even as Brazil served delegates 80 tonnes of local, #agroecological food.🌱 Elisabetta Recine: “Food solutions were everywhere around COP30 – but none of this made it into the final agreement.” Our reaction: ipes-food.org/cop30-ends-w...

“Food solutions were on display everywhere around COP30 – from the 80 tonnes of local and agroecological meals served, to concrete proposals for tackling hunger – but none of this made it into the negotiating rooms or the final agreement. Despite all the talk, negotiators failed to act, and the lived realities of people most affected by hunger, poverty, and climate shocks went unheard.”

Elisabetta Recine, IPES-Food

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 22/11/2025

#COP30 has ended without recognising industrial #FoodSystems as a major driver of the climate crisis. Food is left out of the final deal. “This is not failure. This is capture,” says our @rajpatel.org Full statement: ipes-food.org/cop30-ends-w... #COP30 #ClimateJustice #FoodSystems

“Food systems have been erased from these negotiations. Not by accident. Industrial agriculture holds extraordinary power over this process, and it shows. This is not failure. This is capture. And until we name it for what it is – until governments choose people over corporate interests – these negotiations will continue to betray the very communities they claim to serve.”

Raj Patel, IPES-Food

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