Re-imagining the UN Committee on World Food Security.
DEVELOPMENT (SOCIETY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT) 2021;
64:227-235. [PMID:
34703165 PMCID:
PMC8532490 DOI:
10.1057/s41301-021-00322-z]
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Abstract
This article argues that the United Nations Committee on World Food Security can and must serve as a space for catalyzing and strengthening public interest-oriented food systems governance grounded in the human rights framework. This would necessarily entail confronting the fragmentation of governance and erasure of accountability promoted by corporate designed multi-stakeholderism, and democratizing multilateralism through genuine participation of rights holders, public scrutiny and participatory science. Pivotal to this endeavor is arresting the growing corporate influence in governance mechanisms and reorienting them towards reinvigorating relationships among people, communities and governments.
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