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Abstract
The increasingly destructive impacts that today’s global food system visits upon local food provision, biodiversity, and the environment have been highlighted by a number of contributors in this special issue. Viewed through a global governance lens, public responsibility has been progressively sold out to markets and corporations while the front-line actors of food provision—families, communities, and small-scale producers—have been disempowered. Decisions that affect food security are most often taken at tables located behind closed doors, from which the vulnerable are excluded. The global food system is largely orchestrated by powerful corporate, financial, and political actors to serve their own interests.
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Roma Tre UniversityThe increasingly destructive impacts that today’s global food system visits upon local food provision, biodiversity, and the environment have been highlighted by a number of contributors in this special issue
Now is the time to build better food governance, because we are getting very close to the absolute ecological, socio-economic, and political limits of today’s dominant system, and because alternatives do exist
When the “new” Committee on World Food Security (CFS) was heralded with a standing ovation by the participants at the final meeting of the multi-actor assembly in which the reform had been negotiated, there might have been a momentary temptation to think that the global food governance problem had been “solved.” it had not, but it was an important step in the right direction
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The increasingly destructive impacts that today’s global food system visits upon local food provision, biodiversity, and the environment have been highlighted by a number of contributors in this special issue. These solutions are practiced and advocated by increasingly authoritative organizations of peasant farmers, artisanal fisherfolk, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, urban poor, and other constituencies, many of whom recognize themselves in the food sovereignty movement. They are mobilizing around their common experiences at all levels including the global, where they have been instrumental in establishing a unique governance site
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