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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oakland, CA: &lt;/em&gt;The Food Systems Summit, hosted by the United Nations, has been reduced to a day-long virtual event on September 23, 2021 &amp;mdash; a result of an unprecedented counter mobilization around the world. Hijacked by proponents of corporate industrial agriculture, the summit faced a united front from farmers, civil society groups, and social movements around the world, who rejected and mobilized against the takeover of global food and agriculture governance.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations: The Battle Over Global Food and Agriculture Governance&lt;/em&gt;, a &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/People%20versus%20agribusiness%20brief-un-food-systems-summit.pdf&quot;&gt;policy brief&lt;/a&gt; released today by the Oakland Institute, offers a detailed look and analysis of how the 2021 Food Systems Summit became the most uneventful UN event. The appointment of the President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), as UN Special Envoy of the summit, was the lightning rod that catalyzed global opposition. AGRA&amp;rsquo;s push of monocultural, fossil fuel-based agriculture and promotion of genetically engineered crops has failed to deliver on its much touted promises, while devastating the livelihoods of farmers, holding national budgets hostage to chemical inputs and foreign corporations, and resulting in worsening hunger. In the months leading to the summit, an unprecedented number of petitions, public communications, and other advocacy actions mobilized millions around the world, including the organization of national and global counter summits. From Nigeria and the Philippines, to Zimbabwe and Peru, calls for a radical shift in our food and agriculture system &amp;mdash; from destructive and polluting industrial corporate production to farmer-centred agro-ecological systems &amp;mdash; made the summit moot.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations calls out a number of powerful actors &amp;mdash; the Bill &amp;amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, some Western governments, the World Bank, and others &amp;mdash; who actively prevent the much needed transition as they continue to peddle corporate industrial agriculture. By leveraging financial support to countries to expand the use of agrochemicals and pesticides, their efforts undermine the principles of cooperation and multilateralism upheld by the United Nations institutions responsible for global food and agriculture such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Committee on World Food Security (CFS).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;On the eve of the summit, a two-part podcast released by the Oakland Institute &lt;em&gt;(see below)&lt;/em&gt; goes inside the global resistance and maps out the solutions advocated by farmers, researchers, and civil society organizations in the Global South. Featuring Nnimmo Bassey &lt;em&gt;(Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nigeria)&lt;/em&gt;, Elizabeth Mpofu &lt;em&gt;(La Via Campesina, Zimbabwe)&lt;/em&gt;, Alejandro Argumedo &lt;em&gt;(Swift Foundation, Peru)&lt;/em&gt;, Kristen Lyons &lt;em&gt;(University of Queensland, Australia)&lt;/em&gt;, Chivy Sok &lt;em&gt;(Tikvah Grassroots Empowerment Fund)&lt;/em&gt; and Anuradha Mittal &lt;em&gt;(the Oakland Institute)&lt;/em&gt;, the podcast elevates the voices of those on the frontlines of challenging the failed industrial agriculture model and working to ensure food sovereignty from the bottom up.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;While there were no expectations of the Food Systems Summit, it did catalyze and coalesce global opposition to Western corporate industrial agriculture. Millions of farmers and citizens rose up to hold international institutions and their own governments accountable.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The United Nations were created by states. In today&amp;rsquo;s globalized and interconnected world, when governments capitulate to corporate influence, civil society organizations, with cross border and multisectoral alliances, are the central force that defends the universalist values and principles on which this institution was built.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/food-systems-summit-battle-over-global-food-agriculture-governance&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to access the above press release.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For more information, please contact:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Anuradha Mittal &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://amittal@oaklandinstitute.org&quot;&gt;amittal@oaklandinstitute.org&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;nbsp;+1-510-469-5228&lt;br /&gt;
Frederic Mousseau &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org&quot;&gt;fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;nbsp;+1-510-512-5458&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;###&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Listen to the Podcast: UN Food Systems Summit Resistance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Part One: Nnimmo Bassey and Kristen Lyons, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-one-nnimmo-bassey-kristen-lyons?utm_source=land_rights&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;amp;utm_content=aside&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Part Two: Elizabeth Mpofu, Alejandro Argumedo, and Anuradha Mittal, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-two-elizabeth-mpofu-alejandro-argumedo-anuradha-mittal?utm_source=land_rights&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;amp;utm_content=aside&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oakland, CA: &lt;/em&gt;The Food Systems Summit, hosted by the United Nations, has been reduced to a day-long virtual event on September 23, 2021 &amp;mdash; a result of an unprecedented counter mobilization around the world. Hijacked by proponents of corporate industrial agriculture, the summit faced a united front from farmers, civil society groups, and social movements around the world, who rejected and mobilized against the takeover of global food and agriculture governance.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations: The Battle Over Global Food and Agriculture Governance&lt;/em&gt;, a &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/People%20versus%20agribusiness%20brief-un-food-systems-summit.pdf&quot;&gt;policy brief&lt;/a&gt; released today by the Oakland Institute, offers a detailed look and analysis of how the 2021 Food Systems Summit became the most uneventful UN event. The appointment of the President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), as UN Special Envoy of the summit, was the lightning rod that catalyzed global opposition. AGRA&amp;rsquo;s push of monocultural, fossil fuel-based agriculture and promotion of genetically engineered crops has failed to deliver on its much touted promises, while devastating the livelihoods of farmers, holding national budgets hostage to chemical inputs and foreign corporations, and resulting in worsening hunger. In the months leading to the summit, an unprecedented number of petitions, public communications, and other advocacy actions mobilized millions around the world, including the organization of national and global counter summits. From Nigeria and the Philippines, to Zimbabwe and Peru, calls for a radical shift in our food and agriculture system &amp;mdash; from destructive and polluting industrial corporate production to farmer-centred agro-ecological systems &amp;mdash; made the summit moot.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations calls out a number of powerful actors &amp;mdash; the Bill &amp;amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, some Western governments, the World Bank, and others &amp;mdash; who actively prevent the much needed transition as they continue to peddle corporate industrial agriculture. By leveraging financial support to countries to expand the use of agrochemicals and pesticides, their efforts undermine the principles of cooperation and multilateralism upheld by the United Nations institutions responsible for global food and agriculture such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Committee on World Food Security (CFS).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;On the eve of the summit, a two-part podcast released by the Oakland Institute &lt;em&gt;(see below)&lt;/em&gt; goes inside the global resistance and maps out the solutions advocated by farmers, researchers, and civil society organizations in the Global South. Featuring Nnimmo Bassey &lt;em&gt;(Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nigeria)&lt;/em&gt;, Elizabeth Mpofu &lt;em&gt;(La Via Campesina, Zimbabwe)&lt;/em&gt;, Alejandro Argumedo &lt;em&gt;(Swift Foundation, Peru)&lt;/em&gt;, Kristen Lyons &lt;em&gt;(University of Queensland, Australia)&lt;/em&gt;, Chivy Sok &lt;em&gt;(Tikvah Grassroots Empowerment Fund)&lt;/em&gt; and Anuradha Mittal &lt;em&gt;(the Oakland Institute)&lt;/em&gt;, the podcast elevates the voices of those on the frontlines of challenging the failed industrial agriculture model and working to ensure food sovereignty from the bottom up.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;While there were no expectations of the Food Systems Summit, it did catalyze and coalesce global opposition to Western corporate industrial agriculture. Millions of farmers and citizens rose up to hold international institutions and their own governments accountable.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The United Nations were created by states. In today&amp;rsquo;s globalized and interconnected world, when governments capitulate to corporate influence, civil society organizations, with cross border and multisectoral alliances, are the central force that defends the universalist values and principles on which this institution was built.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/food-systems-summit-battle-over-global-food-agriculture-governance&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to access the above press release.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For more information, please contact:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Anuradha Mittal &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://amittal@oaklandinstitute.org&quot;&gt;amittal@oaklandinstitute.org&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;nbsp;+1-510-469-5228&lt;br /&gt;
Frederic Mousseau &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org&quot;&gt;fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;nbsp;+1-510-512-5458&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;###&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Listen to the Podcast: UN Food Systems Summit Resistance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Part One: Nnimmo Bassey and Kristen Lyons, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-one-nnimmo-bassey-kristen-lyons?utm_source=land_rights&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;amp;utm_content=aside&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Part Two: Elizabeth Mpofu, Alejandro Argumedo, and Anuradha Mittal, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-two-elizabeth-mpofu-alejandro-argumedo-anuradha-mittal?utm_source=land_rights&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;amp;utm_content=aside&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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By leveraging financial support to countries to expand the use of agrochemicals and pesticides, their efforts undermine the principles of cooperation and multilateralism upheld by the United Nations institutions responsible for global food and agriculture such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Committee on World Food Security (CFS).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;On the eve of the summit, a two-part podcast released by the Oakland Institute &lt;em&gt;(see below)&lt;/em&gt; goes inside the global resistance and maps out the solutions advocated by farmers, researchers, and civil society organizations in the Global South. Featuring Nnimmo Bassey &lt;em&gt;(Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nigeria)&lt;/em&gt;, Elizabeth Mpofu &lt;em&gt;(La Via Campesina, Zimbabwe)&lt;/em&gt;, Alejandro Argumedo &lt;em&gt;(Swift Foundation, Peru)&lt;/em&gt;, Kristen Lyons &lt;em&gt;(University of Queensland, Australia)&lt;/em&gt;, Chivy Sok &lt;em&gt;(Tikvah Grassroots Empowerment Fund)&lt;/em&gt; and Anuradha Mittal &lt;em&gt;(the Oakland Institute)&lt;/em&gt;, the podcast elevates the voices of those on the frontlines of challenging the failed industrial agriculture model and working to ensure food sovereignty from the bottom up.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;While there were no expectations of the Food Systems Summit, it did catalyze and coalesce global opposition to Western corporate industrial agriculture. Millions of farmers and citizens rose up to hold international institutions and their own governments accountable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The United Nations were created by states. 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                <p style="text-align:justify">-Press release by Oakland Institute dated 21st September, 2021</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Oakland, CA: </em>The Food Systems Summit, hosted by the United Nations, has been reduced to a day-long virtual event on September 23, 2021 &mdash; a result of an unprecedented counter mobilization around the world. Hijacked by proponents of corporate industrial agriculture, the summit faced a united front from farmers, civil society groups, and social movements around the world, who rejected and mobilized against the takeover of global food and agriculture governance.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations: The Battle Over Global Food and Agriculture Governance</em>, a <a href="/upload/files/People%20versus%20agribusiness%20brief-un-food-systems-summit.pdf" title="/upload/files/People%20versus%20agribusiness%20brief-un-food-systems-summit.pdf">policy brief</a> released today by the Oakland Institute, offers a detailed look and analysis of how the 2021 Food Systems Summit became the most uneventful UN event. The appointment of the President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), as UN Special Envoy of the summit, was the lightning rod that catalyzed global opposition. AGRA&rsquo;s push of monocultural, fossil fuel-based agriculture and promotion of genetically engineered crops has failed to deliver on its much touted promises, while devastating the livelihoods of farmers, holding national budgets hostage to chemical inputs and foreign corporations, and resulting in worsening hunger. In the months leading to the summit, an unprecedented number of petitions, public communications, and other advocacy actions mobilized millions around the world, including the organization of national and global counter summits. From Nigeria and the Philippines, to Zimbabwe and Peru, calls for a radical shift in our food and agriculture system &mdash; from destructive and polluting industrial corporate production to farmer-centred agro-ecological systems &mdash; made the summit moot.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><img alt="" src="/upload/images/Press%20release%20blurb.jpg" style="height:601px; width:599px" /></p><p style="text-align:justify">People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations calls out a number of powerful actors &mdash; the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, some Western governments, the World Bank, and others &mdash; who actively prevent the much needed transition as they continue to peddle corporate industrial agriculture. By leveraging financial support to countries to expand the use of agrochemicals and pesticides, their efforts undermine the principles of cooperation and multilateralism upheld by the United Nations institutions responsible for global food and agriculture such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Committee on World Food Security (CFS).</p><p style="text-align:justify">On the eve of the summit, a two-part podcast released by the Oakland Institute <em>(see below)</em> goes inside the global resistance and maps out the solutions advocated by farmers, researchers, and civil society organizations in the Global South. Featuring Nnimmo Bassey <em>(Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nigeria)</em>, Elizabeth Mpofu <em>(La Via Campesina, Zimbabwe)</em>, Alejandro Argumedo <em>(Swift Foundation, Peru)</em>, Kristen Lyons <em>(University of Queensland, Australia)</em>, Chivy Sok <em>(Tikvah Grassroots Empowerment Fund)</em> and Anuradha Mittal <em>(the Oakland Institute)</em>, the podcast elevates the voices of those on the frontlines of challenging the failed industrial agriculture model and working to ensure food sovereignty from the bottom up.</p><p style="text-align:justify">While there were no expectations of the Food Systems Summit, it did catalyze and coalesce global opposition to Western corporate industrial agriculture. Millions of farmers and citizens rose up to hold international institutions and their own governments accountable.</p><p style="text-align:justify">The United Nations were created by states. In today&rsquo;s globalized and interconnected world, when governments capitulate to corporate influence, civil society organizations, with cross border and multisectoral alliances, are the central force that defends the universalist values and principles on which this institution was built.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/food-systems-summit-battle-over-global-food-agriculture-governance" title="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/food-systems-summit-battle-over-global-food-agriculture-governance">click here</a>&nbsp;to access the above press release.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>For more information, please contact:</strong>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Anuradha Mittal &mdash; <a href="http://amittal@oaklandinstitute.org" title="http://amittal@oaklandinstitute.org">amittal@oaklandinstitute.org</a>, &nbsp;+1-510-469-5228<br />Frederic Mousseau &mdash; <a href="http://fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org" title="http://fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org">fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org</a>, &nbsp;+1-510-512-5458</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">###</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Listen to the Podcast: UN Food Systems Summit Resistance</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Part One: Nnimmo Bassey and Kristen Lyons, please <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-one-nnimmo-bassey-kristen-lyons?utm_source=land_rights&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;utm_content=aside" title="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-one-nnimmo-bassey-kristen-lyons?utm_source=land_rights&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;utm_content=aside">click here</a> to access</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Part Two: Elizabeth Mpofu, Alejandro Argumedo, and Anuradha Mittal, please <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-two-elizabeth-mpofu-alejandro-argumedo-anuradha-mittal?utm_source=land_rights&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;utm_content=aside" title="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-two-elizabeth-mpofu-alejandro-argumedo-anuradha-mittal?utm_source=land_rights&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;utm_content=aside">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak</strong></p>               </font>
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oakland, CA: &lt;/em&gt;The Food Systems Summit, hosted by the United Nations, has been reduced to a day-long virtual event on September 23, 2021 &amp;mdash; a result of an unprecedented counter mobilization around the world. Hijacked by proponents of corporate industrial agriculture, the summit faced a united front from farmers, civil society groups, and social movements around the world, who rejected and mobilized against the takeover of global food and agriculture governance.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations: The Battle Over Global Food and Agriculture Governance&lt;/em&gt;, a &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/People%20versus%20agribusiness%20brief-un-food-systems-summit.pdf&quot;&gt;policy brief&lt;/a&gt; released today by the Oakland Institute, offers a detailed look and analysis of how the 2021 Food Systems Summit became the most uneventful UN event. The appointment of the President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), as UN Special Envoy of the summit, was the lightning rod that catalyzed global opposition. AGRA&amp;rsquo;s push of monocultural, fossil fuel-based agriculture and promotion of genetically engineered crops has failed to deliver on its much touted promises, while devastating the livelihoods of farmers, holding national budgets hostage to chemical inputs and foreign corporations, and resulting in worsening hunger. In the months leading to the summit, an unprecedented number of petitions, public communications, and other advocacy actions mobilized millions around the world, including the organization of national and global counter summits. From Nigeria and the Philippines, to Zimbabwe and Peru, calls for a radical shift in our food and agriculture system &amp;mdash; from destructive and polluting industrial corporate production to farmer-centred agro-ecological systems &amp;mdash; made the summit moot.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations calls out a number of powerful actors &amp;mdash; the Bill &amp;amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, some Western governments, the World Bank, and others &amp;mdash; who actively prevent the much needed transition as they continue to peddle corporate industrial agriculture. By leveraging financial support to countries to expand the use of agrochemicals and pesticides, their efforts undermine the principles of cooperation and multilateralism upheld by the United Nations institutions responsible for global food and agriculture such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Committee on World Food Security (CFS).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;On the eve of the summit, a two-part podcast released by the Oakland Institute &lt;em&gt;(see below)&lt;/em&gt; goes inside the global resistance and maps out the solutions advocated by farmers, researchers, and civil society organizations in the Global South. Featuring Nnimmo Bassey &lt;em&gt;(Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nigeria)&lt;/em&gt;, Elizabeth Mpofu &lt;em&gt;(La Via Campesina, Zimbabwe)&lt;/em&gt;, Alejandro Argumedo &lt;em&gt;(Swift Foundation, Peru)&lt;/em&gt;, Kristen Lyons &lt;em&gt;(University of Queensland, Australia)&lt;/em&gt;, Chivy Sok &lt;em&gt;(Tikvah Grassroots Empowerment Fund)&lt;/em&gt; and Anuradha Mittal &lt;em&gt;(the Oakland Institute)&lt;/em&gt;, the podcast elevates the voices of those on the frontlines of challenging the failed industrial agriculture model and working to ensure food sovereignty from the bottom up.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;While there were no expectations of the Food Systems Summit, it did catalyze and coalesce global opposition to Western corporate industrial agriculture. Millions of farmers and citizens rose up to hold international institutions and their own governments accountable.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The United Nations were created by states. In today&amp;rsquo;s globalized and interconnected world, when governments capitulate to corporate influence, civil society organizations, with cross border and multisectoral alliances, are the central force that defends the universalist values and principles on which this institution was built.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/food-systems-summit-battle-over-global-food-agriculture-governance&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to access the above press release.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For more information, please contact:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Anuradha Mittal &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://amittal@oaklandinstitute.org&quot;&gt;amittal@oaklandinstitute.org&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;nbsp;+1-510-469-5228&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;###&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Listen to the Podcast: UN Food Systems Summit Resistance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Part One: Nnimmo Bassey and Kristen Lyons, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-one-nnimmo-bassey-kristen-lyons?utm_source=land_rights&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;amp;utm_content=aside&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations: The Battle Over Global Food and Agriculture Governance&lt;/em&gt;, a &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/People%20versus%20agribusiness%20brief-un-food-systems-summit.pdf&quot;&gt;policy brief&lt;/a&gt; released today by the Oakland Institute, offers a detailed look and analysis of how the 2021 Food Systems Summit became the most uneventful UN event. The appointment of the President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), as UN Special Envoy of the summit, was the lightning rod that catalyzed global opposition. AGRA&amp;rsquo;s push of monocultural, fossil fuel-based agriculture and promotion of genetically engineered crops has failed to deliver on its much touted promises, while devastating the livelihoods of farmers, holding national budgets hostage to chemical inputs and foreign corporations, and resulting in worsening hunger. In the months leading to the summit, an unprecedented number of petitions, public communications, and other advocacy actions mobilized millions around the world, including the organization of national and global counter summits. From Nigeria and the Philippines, to Zimbabwe and Peru, calls for a radical shift in our food and agriculture system &amp;mdash; from destructive and polluting industrial corporate production to farmer-centred agro-ecological systems &amp;mdash; made the summit moot.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations calls out a number of powerful actors &amp;mdash; the Bill &amp;amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, some Western governments, the World Bank, and others &amp;mdash; who actively prevent the much needed transition as they continue to peddle corporate industrial agriculture. By leveraging financial support to countries to expand the use of agrochemicals and pesticides, their efforts undermine the principles of cooperation and multilateralism upheld by the United Nations institutions responsible for global food and agriculture such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Committee on World Food Security (CFS).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;On the eve of the summit, a two-part podcast released by the Oakland Institute &lt;em&gt;(see below)&lt;/em&gt; goes inside the global resistance and maps out the solutions advocated by farmers, researchers, and civil society organizations in the Global South. Featuring Nnimmo Bassey &lt;em&gt;(Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nigeria)&lt;/em&gt;, Elizabeth Mpofu &lt;em&gt;(La Via Campesina, Zimbabwe)&lt;/em&gt;, Alejandro Argumedo &lt;em&gt;(Swift Foundation, Peru)&lt;/em&gt;, Kristen Lyons &lt;em&gt;(University of Queensland, Australia)&lt;/em&gt;, Chivy Sok &lt;em&gt;(Tikvah Grassroots Empowerment Fund)&lt;/em&gt; and Anuradha Mittal &lt;em&gt;(the Oakland Institute)&lt;/em&gt;, the podcast elevates the voices of those on the frontlines of challenging the failed industrial agriculture model and working to ensure food sovereignty from the bottom up.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;While there were no expectations of the Food Systems Summit, it did catalyze and coalesce global opposition to Western corporate industrial agriculture. Millions of farmers and citizens rose up to hold international institutions and their own governments accountable.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The United Nations were created by states. In today&amp;rsquo;s globalized and interconnected world, when governments capitulate to corporate influence, civil society organizations, with cross border and multisectoral alliances, are the central force that defends the universalist values and principles on which this institution was built.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/food-systems-summit-battle-over-global-food-agriculture-governance&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to access the above press release.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For more information, please contact:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Anuradha Mittal &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://amittal@oaklandinstitute.org&quot;&gt;amittal@oaklandinstitute.org&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;nbsp;+1-510-469-5228&lt;br /&gt;
Frederic Mousseau &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org&quot;&gt;fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;nbsp;+1-510-512-5458&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;###&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Listen to the Podcast: UN Food Systems Summit Resistance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Part One: Nnimmo Bassey and Kristen Lyons, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-one-nnimmo-bassey-kristen-lyons?utm_source=land_rights&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;amp;utm_content=aside&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Part Two: Elizabeth Mpofu, Alejandro Argumedo, and Anuradha Mittal, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-two-elizabeth-mpofu-alejandro-argumedo-anuradha-mittal?utm_source=land_rights&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;amp;utm_content=aside&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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By leveraging financial support to countries to expand the use of agrochemicals and pesticides, their efforts undermine the principles of cooperation and multilateralism upheld by the United Nations institutions responsible for global food and agriculture such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Committee on World Food Security (CFS).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;On the eve of the summit, a two-part podcast released by the Oakland Institute &lt;em&gt;(see below)&lt;/em&gt; goes inside the global resistance and maps out the solutions advocated by farmers, researchers, and civil society organizations in the Global South. 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                <p style="text-align:justify">-Press release by Oakland Institute dated 21st September, 2021</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Oakland, CA: </em>The Food Systems Summit, hosted by the United Nations, has been reduced to a day-long virtual event on September 23, 2021 &mdash; a result of an unprecedented counter mobilization around the world. Hijacked by proponents of corporate industrial agriculture, the summit faced a united front from farmers, civil society groups, and social movements around the world, who rejected and mobilized against the takeover of global food and agriculture governance.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations: The Battle Over Global Food and Agriculture Governance</em>, a <a href="/upload/files/People%20versus%20agribusiness%20brief-un-food-systems-summit.pdf" title="/upload/files/People%20versus%20agribusiness%20brief-un-food-systems-summit.pdf">policy brief</a> released today by the Oakland Institute, offers a detailed look and analysis of how the 2021 Food Systems Summit became the most uneventful UN event. The appointment of the President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), as UN Special Envoy of the summit, was the lightning rod that catalyzed global opposition. AGRA&rsquo;s push of monocultural, fossil fuel-based agriculture and promotion of genetically engineered crops has failed to deliver on its much touted promises, while devastating the livelihoods of farmers, holding national budgets hostage to chemical inputs and foreign corporations, and resulting in worsening hunger. In the months leading to the summit, an unprecedented number of petitions, public communications, and other advocacy actions mobilized millions around the world, including the organization of national and global counter summits. From Nigeria and the Philippines, to Zimbabwe and Peru, calls for a radical shift in our food and agriculture system &mdash; from destructive and polluting industrial corporate production to farmer-centred agro-ecological systems &mdash; made the summit moot.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><img alt="" src="/upload/images/Press%20release%20blurb.jpg" style="height:601px; width:599px" /></p><p style="text-align:justify">People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations calls out a number of powerful actors &mdash; the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, some Western governments, the World Bank, and others &mdash; who actively prevent the much needed transition as they continue to peddle corporate industrial agriculture. By leveraging financial support to countries to expand the use of agrochemicals and pesticides, their efforts undermine the principles of cooperation and multilateralism upheld by the United Nations institutions responsible for global food and agriculture such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Committee on World Food Security (CFS).</p><p style="text-align:justify">On the eve of the summit, a two-part podcast released by the Oakland Institute <em>(see below)</em> goes inside the global resistance and maps out the solutions advocated by farmers, researchers, and civil society organizations in the Global South. Featuring Nnimmo Bassey <em>(Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nigeria)</em>, Elizabeth Mpofu <em>(La Via Campesina, Zimbabwe)</em>, Alejandro Argumedo <em>(Swift Foundation, Peru)</em>, Kristen Lyons <em>(University of Queensland, Australia)</em>, Chivy Sok <em>(Tikvah Grassroots Empowerment Fund)</em> and Anuradha Mittal <em>(the Oakland Institute)</em>, the podcast elevates the voices of those on the frontlines of challenging the failed industrial agriculture model and working to ensure food sovereignty from the bottom up.</p><p style="text-align:justify">While there were no expectations of the Food Systems Summit, it did catalyze and coalesce global opposition to Western corporate industrial agriculture. Millions of farmers and citizens rose up to hold international institutions and their own governments accountable.</p><p style="text-align:justify">The United Nations were created by states. In today&rsquo;s globalized and interconnected world, when governments capitulate to corporate influence, civil society organizations, with cross border and multisectoral alliances, are the central force that defends the universalist values and principles on which this institution was built.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/food-systems-summit-battle-over-global-food-agriculture-governance" title="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/food-systems-summit-battle-over-global-food-agriculture-governance">click here</a>&nbsp;to access the above press release.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>For more information, please contact:</strong>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Anuradha Mittal &mdash; <a href="http://amittal@oaklandinstitute.org" title="http://amittal@oaklandinstitute.org">amittal@oaklandinstitute.org</a>, &nbsp;+1-510-469-5228<br />Frederic Mousseau &mdash; <a href="http://fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org" title="http://fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org">fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org</a>, &nbsp;+1-510-512-5458</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">###</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Listen to the Podcast: UN Food Systems Summit Resistance</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Part One: Nnimmo Bassey and Kristen Lyons, please <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-one-nnimmo-bassey-kristen-lyons?utm_source=land_rights&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;utm_content=aside" title="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-one-nnimmo-bassey-kristen-lyons?utm_source=land_rights&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;utm_content=aside">click here</a> to access</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Part Two: Elizabeth Mpofu, Alejandro Argumedo, and Anuradha Mittal, please <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-two-elizabeth-mpofu-alejandro-argumedo-anuradha-mittal?utm_source=land_rights&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;utm_content=aside" title="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-two-elizabeth-mpofu-alejandro-argumedo-anuradha-mittal?utm_source=land_rights&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;utm_content=aside">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak</strong></p>               </font>
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oakland, CA: &lt;/em&gt;The Food Systems Summit, hosted by the United Nations, has been reduced to a day-long virtual event on September 23, 2021 &amp;mdash; a result of an unprecedented counter mobilization around the world. Hijacked by proponents of corporate industrial agriculture, the summit faced a united front from farmers, civil society groups, and social movements around the world, who rejected and mobilized against the takeover of global food and agriculture governance.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations: The Battle Over Global Food and Agriculture Governance&lt;/em&gt;, a &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/People%20versus%20agribusiness%20brief-un-food-systems-summit.pdf&quot;&gt;policy brief&lt;/a&gt; released today by the Oakland Institute, offers a detailed look and analysis of how the 2021 Food Systems Summit became the most uneventful UN event. The appointment of the President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), as UN Special Envoy of the summit, was the lightning rod that catalyzed global opposition. AGRA&amp;rsquo;s push of monocultural, fossil fuel-based agriculture and promotion of genetically engineered crops has failed to deliver on its much touted promises, while devastating the livelihoods of farmers, holding national budgets hostage to chemical inputs and foreign corporations, and resulting in worsening hunger. In the months leading to the summit, an unprecedented number of petitions, public communications, and other advocacy actions mobilized millions around the world, including the organization of national and global counter summits. From Nigeria and the Philippines, to Zimbabwe and Peru, calls for a radical shift in our food and agriculture system &amp;mdash; from destructive and polluting industrial corporate production to farmer-centred agro-ecological systems &amp;mdash; made the summit moot.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations calls out a number of powerful actors &amp;mdash; the Bill &amp;amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, some Western governments, the World Bank, and others &amp;mdash; who actively prevent the much needed transition as they continue to peddle corporate industrial agriculture. By leveraging financial support to countries to expand the use of agrochemicals and pesticides, their efforts undermine the principles of cooperation and multilateralism upheld by the United Nations institutions responsible for global food and agriculture such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Committee on World Food Security (CFS).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;On the eve of the summit, a two-part podcast released by the Oakland Institute &lt;em&gt;(see below)&lt;/em&gt; goes inside the global resistance and maps out the solutions advocated by farmers, researchers, and civil society organizations in the Global South. Featuring Nnimmo Bassey &lt;em&gt;(Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nigeria)&lt;/em&gt;, Elizabeth Mpofu &lt;em&gt;(La Via Campesina, Zimbabwe)&lt;/em&gt;, Alejandro Argumedo &lt;em&gt;(Swift Foundation, Peru)&lt;/em&gt;, Kristen Lyons &lt;em&gt;(University of Queensland, Australia)&lt;/em&gt;, Chivy Sok &lt;em&gt;(Tikvah Grassroots Empowerment Fund)&lt;/em&gt; and Anuradha Mittal &lt;em&gt;(the Oakland Institute)&lt;/em&gt;, the podcast elevates the voices of those on the frontlines of challenging the failed industrial agriculture model and working to ensure food sovereignty from the bottom up.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;While there were no expectations of the Food Systems Summit, it did catalyze and coalesce global opposition to Western corporate industrial agriculture. Millions of farmers and citizens rose up to hold international institutions and their own governments accountable.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The United Nations were created by states. In today&amp;rsquo;s globalized and interconnected world, when governments capitulate to corporate influence, civil society organizations, with cross border and multisectoral alliances, are the central force that defends the universalist values and principles on which this institution was built.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/food-systems-summit-battle-over-global-food-agriculture-governance&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to access the above press release.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For more information, please contact:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Anuradha Mittal &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://amittal@oaklandinstitute.org&quot;&gt;amittal@oaklandinstitute.org&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;nbsp;+1-510-469-5228&lt;br /&gt;
Frederic Mousseau &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org&quot;&gt;fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;nbsp;+1-510-512-5458&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;###&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Listen to the Podcast: UN Food Systems Summit Resistance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Part One: Nnimmo Bassey and Kristen Lyons, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-one-nnimmo-bassey-kristen-lyons?utm_source=land_rights&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;amp;utm_content=aside&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Featuring Nnimmo Bassey &lt;em&gt;(Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nigeria)&lt;/em&gt;, Elizabeth Mpofu &lt;em&gt;(La Via Campesina, Zimbabwe)&lt;/em&gt;, Alejandro Argumedo &lt;em&gt;(Swift Foundation, Peru)&lt;/em&gt;, Kristen Lyons &lt;em&gt;(University of Queensland, Australia)&lt;/em&gt;, Chivy Sok &lt;em&gt;(Tikvah Grassroots Empowerment Fund)&lt;/em&gt; and Anuradha Mittal &lt;em&gt;(the Oakland Institute)&lt;/em&gt;, the podcast elevates the voices of those on the frontlines of challenging the failed industrial agriculture model and working to ensure food sovereignty from the bottom up.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;While there were no expectations of the Food Systems Summit, it did catalyze and coalesce global opposition to Western corporate industrial agriculture. Millions of farmers and citizens rose up to hold international institutions and their own governments accountable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The United Nations were created by states. In today&amp;rsquo;s globalized and interconnected world, when governments capitulate to corporate influence, civil society organizations, with cross border and multisectoral alliances, are the central force that defends the universalist values and principles on which this institution was built.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/food-systems-summit-battle-over-global-food-agriculture-governance&quot; title=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/food-systems-summit-battle-over-global-food-agriculture-governance&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to access the above press release.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For more information, please contact:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Anuradha Mittal &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://amittal@oaklandinstitute.org&quot; title=&quot;http://amittal@oaklandinstitute.org&quot;&gt;amittal@oaklandinstitute.org&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;nbsp;+1-510-469-5228&lt;br /&gt;Frederic Mousseau &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org&quot; title=&quot;http://fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org&quot;&gt;fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;nbsp;+1-510-512-5458&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;###&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Listen to the Podcast: UN Food Systems Summit Resistance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Part One: Nnimmo Bassey and Kristen Lyons, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-one-nnimmo-bassey-kristen-lyons?utm_source=land_rights&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;amp;utm_content=aside&quot; title=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-one-nnimmo-bassey-kristen-lyons?utm_source=land_rights&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;amp;utm_content=aside&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Part Two: Elizabeth Mpofu, Alejandro Argumedo, and Anuradha Mittal, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-two-elizabeth-mpofu-alejandro-argumedo-anuradha-mittal?utm_source=land_rights&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;amp;utm_content=aside&quot; title=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-two-elizabeth-mpofu-alejandro-argumedo-anuradha-mittal?utm_source=land_rights&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;amp;utm_content=aside&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oakland, CA: &lt;/em&gt;The Food Systems Summit, hosted by the United Nations, has been reduced to a day-long virtual event on September 23, 2021 &amp;mdash; a result of an unprecedented counter mobilization around the world. Hijacked by proponents of corporate industrial agriculture, the summit faced a united front from farmers, civil society groups, and social movements around the world, who rejected and mobilized against the takeover of global food and agriculture governance.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations: The Battle Over Global Food and Agriculture Governance&lt;/em&gt;, a &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/People%20versus%20agribusiness%20brief-un-food-systems-summit.pdf&quot;&gt;policy brief&lt;/a&gt; released today by the Oakland Institute, offers a detailed look and analysis of how the 2021 Food Systems Summit became the most uneventful UN event. The appointment of the President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), as UN Special Envoy of the summit, was the lightning rod that catalyzed global opposition. AGRA&amp;rsquo;s push of monocultural, fossil fuel-based agriculture and promotion of genetically engineered crops has failed to deliver on its much touted promises, while devastating the livelihoods of farmers, holding national budgets hostage to chemical inputs and foreign corporations, and resulting in worsening hunger. In the months leading to the summit, an unprecedented number of petitions, public communications, and other advocacy actions mobilized millions around the world, including the organization of national and global counter summits. From Nigeria and the Philippines, to Zimbabwe and Peru, calls for a radical shift in our food and agriculture system &amp;mdash; from destructive and polluting industrial corporate production to farmer-centred agro-ecological systems &amp;mdash; made the summit moot.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;/upload/images/Press%20release%20blurb.jpg&quot; style=&quot;height:601px; width:599px&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations calls out a number of powerful actors &amp;mdash; the Bill &amp;amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, some Western governments, the World Bank, and others &amp;mdash; who actively prevent the much needed transition as they continue to peddle corporate industrial agriculture. By leveraging financial support to countries to expand the use of agrochemicals and pesticides, their efforts undermine the principles of cooperation and multilateralism upheld by the United Nations institutions responsible for global food and agriculture such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Committee on World Food Security (CFS).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;On the eve of the summit, a two-part podcast released by the Oakland Institute &lt;em&gt;(see below)&lt;/em&gt; goes inside the global resistance and maps out the solutions advocated by farmers, researchers, and civil society organizations in the Global South. Featuring Nnimmo Bassey &lt;em&gt;(Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nigeria)&lt;/em&gt;, Elizabeth Mpofu &lt;em&gt;(La Via Campesina, Zimbabwe)&lt;/em&gt;, Alejandro Argumedo &lt;em&gt;(Swift Foundation, Peru)&lt;/em&gt;, Kristen Lyons &lt;em&gt;(University of Queensland, Australia)&lt;/em&gt;, Chivy Sok &lt;em&gt;(Tikvah Grassroots Empowerment Fund)&lt;/em&gt; and Anuradha Mittal &lt;em&gt;(the Oakland Institute)&lt;/em&gt;, the podcast elevates the voices of those on the frontlines of challenging the failed industrial agriculture model and working to ensure food sovereignty from the bottom up.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;While there were no expectations of the Food Systems Summit, it did catalyze and coalesce global opposition to Western corporate industrial agriculture. Millions of farmers and citizens rose up to hold international institutions and their own governments accountable.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The United Nations were created by states. In today&amp;rsquo;s globalized and interconnected world, when governments capitulate to corporate influence, civil society organizations, with cross border and multisectoral alliances, are the central force that defends the universalist values and principles on which this institution was built.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/food-systems-summit-battle-over-global-food-agriculture-governance&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to access the above press release.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For more information, please contact:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Anuradha Mittal &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://amittal@oaklandinstitute.org&quot;&gt;amittal@oaklandinstitute.org&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;nbsp;+1-510-469-5228&lt;br /&gt;
Frederic Mousseau &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org&quot;&gt;fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;nbsp;+1-510-512-5458&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;###&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Listen to the Podcast: UN Food Systems Summit Resistance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Part One: Nnimmo Bassey and Kristen Lyons, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-one-nnimmo-bassey-kristen-lyons?utm_source=land_rights&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;amp;utm_content=aside&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Part Two: Elizabeth Mpofu, Alejandro Argumedo, and Anuradha Mittal, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-two-elizabeth-mpofu-alejandro-argumedo-anuradha-mittal?utm_source=land_rights&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;amp;utm_content=aside&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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                <p style="text-align:justify">-Press release by Oakland Institute dated 21st September, 2021</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Oakland, CA: </em>The Food Systems Summit, hosted by the United Nations, has been reduced to a day-long virtual event on September 23, 2021 &mdash; a result of an unprecedented counter mobilization around the world. Hijacked by proponents of corporate industrial agriculture, the summit faced a united front from farmers, civil society groups, and social movements around the world, who rejected and mobilized against the takeover of global food and agriculture governance.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations: The Battle Over Global Food and Agriculture Governance</em>, a <a href="/upload/files/People%20versus%20agribusiness%20brief-un-food-systems-summit.pdf" title="/upload/files/People%20versus%20agribusiness%20brief-un-food-systems-summit.pdf">policy brief</a> released today by the Oakland Institute, offers a detailed look and analysis of how the 2021 Food Systems Summit became the most uneventful UN event. The appointment of the President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), as UN Special Envoy of the summit, was the lightning rod that catalyzed global opposition. AGRA&rsquo;s push of monocultural, fossil fuel-based agriculture and promotion of genetically engineered crops has failed to deliver on its much touted promises, while devastating the livelihoods of farmers, holding national budgets hostage to chemical inputs and foreign corporations, and resulting in worsening hunger. In the months leading to the summit, an unprecedented number of petitions, public communications, and other advocacy actions mobilized millions around the world, including the organization of national and global counter summits. From Nigeria and the Philippines, to Zimbabwe and Peru, calls for a radical shift in our food and agriculture system &mdash; from destructive and polluting industrial corporate production to farmer-centred agro-ecological systems &mdash; made the summit moot.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><img alt="" src="/upload/images/Press%20release%20blurb.jpg" style="height:601px; width:599px" /></p><p style="text-align:justify">People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations calls out a number of powerful actors &mdash; the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, some Western governments, the World Bank, and others &mdash; who actively prevent the much needed transition as they continue to peddle corporate industrial agriculture. By leveraging financial support to countries to expand the use of agrochemicals and pesticides, their efforts undermine the principles of cooperation and multilateralism upheld by the United Nations institutions responsible for global food and agriculture such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Committee on World Food Security (CFS).</p><p style="text-align:justify">On the eve of the summit, a two-part podcast released by the Oakland Institute <em>(see below)</em> goes inside the global resistance and maps out the solutions advocated by farmers, researchers, and civil society organizations in the Global South. Featuring Nnimmo Bassey <em>(Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nigeria)</em>, Elizabeth Mpofu <em>(La Via Campesina, Zimbabwe)</em>, Alejandro Argumedo <em>(Swift Foundation, Peru)</em>, Kristen Lyons <em>(University of Queensland, Australia)</em>, Chivy Sok <em>(Tikvah Grassroots Empowerment Fund)</em> and Anuradha Mittal <em>(the Oakland Institute)</em>, the podcast elevates the voices of those on the frontlines of challenging the failed industrial agriculture model and working to ensure food sovereignty from the bottom up.</p><p style="text-align:justify">While there were no expectations of the Food Systems Summit, it did catalyze and coalesce global opposition to Western corporate industrial agriculture. Millions of farmers and citizens rose up to hold international institutions and their own governments accountable.</p><p style="text-align:justify">The United Nations were created by states. In today&rsquo;s globalized and interconnected world, when governments capitulate to corporate influence, civil society organizations, with cross border and multisectoral alliances, are the central force that defends the universalist values and principles on which this institution was built.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/food-systems-summit-battle-over-global-food-agriculture-governance" title="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/food-systems-summit-battle-over-global-food-agriculture-governance">click here</a>&nbsp;to access the above press release.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>For more information, please contact:</strong>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Anuradha Mittal &mdash; <a href="http://amittal@oaklandinstitute.org" title="http://amittal@oaklandinstitute.org">amittal@oaklandinstitute.org</a>, &nbsp;+1-510-469-5228<br />Frederic Mousseau &mdash; <a href="http://fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org" title="http://fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org">fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org</a>, &nbsp;+1-510-512-5458</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">###</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Listen to the Podcast: UN Food Systems Summit Resistance</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Part One: Nnimmo Bassey and Kristen Lyons, please <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-one-nnimmo-bassey-kristen-lyons?utm_source=land_rights&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;utm_content=aside" title="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-one-nnimmo-bassey-kristen-lyons?utm_source=land_rights&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;utm_content=aside">click here</a> to access</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Part Two: Elizabeth Mpofu, Alejandro Argumedo, and Anuradha Mittal, please <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-two-elizabeth-mpofu-alejandro-argumedo-anuradha-mittal?utm_source=land_rights&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;utm_content=aside" title="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-two-elizabeth-mpofu-alejandro-argumedo-anuradha-mittal?utm_source=land_rights&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;utm_content=aside">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak</strong></p>               </font>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><em>Oakland, CA: </em>The Food Systems Summit, hosted by the United Nations, has been reduced to a day-long virtual event on September 23, 2021 &mdash; a result of an unprecedented counter mobilization around the world. Hijacked by proponents of corporate industrial agriculture, the summit faced a united front from farmers, civil society groups, and social movements around the world, who rejected and mobilized against the takeover of global food and agriculture governance.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><em>People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations: The Battle Over Global Food and Agriculture Governance</em>, a <a href="/upload/files/People%20versus%20agribusiness%20brief-un-food-systems-summit.pdf">policy brief</a> released today by the Oakland Institute, offers a detailed look and analysis of how the 2021 Food Systems Summit became the most uneventful UN event. The appointment of the President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), as UN Special Envoy of the summit, was the lightning rod that catalyzed global opposition. AGRA&rsquo;s push of monocultural, fossil fuel-based agriculture and promotion of genetically engineered crops has failed to deliver on its much touted promises, while devastating the livelihoods of farmers, holding national budgets hostage to chemical inputs and foreign corporations, and resulting in worsening hunger. In the months leading to the summit, an unprecedented number of petitions, public communications, and other advocacy actions mobilized millions around the world, including the organization of national and global counter summits. From Nigeria and the Philippines, to Zimbabwe and Peru, calls for a radical shift in our food and agriculture system &mdash; from destructive and polluting industrial corporate production to farmer-centred agro-ecological systems &mdash; made the summit moot.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><img alt="" src="/upload/images/Press%20release%20blurb.jpg" style="height:601px; width:599px" /></p>

<p style="text-align:justify">People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations calls out a number of powerful actors &mdash; the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, some Western governments, the World Bank, and others &mdash; who actively prevent the much needed transition as they continue to peddle corporate industrial agriculture. By leveraging financial support to countries to expand the use of agrochemicals and pesticides, their efforts undermine the principles of cooperation and multilateralism upheld by the United Nations institutions responsible for global food and agriculture such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Committee on World Food Security (CFS).</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">On the eve of the summit, a two-part podcast released by the Oakland Institute <em>(see below)</em> goes inside the global resistance and maps out the solutions advocated by farmers, researchers, and civil society organizations in the Global South. Featuring Nnimmo Bassey <em>(Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nigeria)</em>, Elizabeth Mpofu <em>(La Via Campesina, Zimbabwe)</em>, Alejandro Argumedo <em>(Swift Foundation, Peru)</em>, Kristen Lyons <em>(University of Queensland, Australia)</em>, Chivy Sok <em>(Tikvah Grassroots Empowerment Fund)</em> and Anuradha Mittal <em>(the Oakland Institute)</em>, the podcast elevates the voices of those on the frontlines of challenging the failed industrial agriculture model and working to ensure food sovereignty from the bottom up.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">While there were no expectations of the Food Systems Summit, it did catalyze and coalesce global opposition to Western corporate industrial agriculture. Millions of farmers and citizens rose up to hold international institutions and their own governments accountable.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">The United Nations were created by states. In today&rsquo;s globalized and interconnected world, when governments capitulate to corporate influence, civil society organizations, with cross border and multisectoral alliances, are the central force that defends the universalist values and principles on which this institution was built.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/food-systems-summit-battle-over-global-food-agriculture-governance">click here</a>&nbsp;to access the above press release.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><strong>For more information, please contact:</strong>&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><em>Anuradha Mittal &mdash; <a href="http://amittal@oaklandinstitute.org">amittal@oaklandinstitute.org</a>, &nbsp;+1-510-469-5228<br />
Frederic Mousseau &mdash; <a href="http://fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org">fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org</a>, &nbsp;+1-510-512-5458</em></p>

<p style="text-align:justify">###</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Listen to the Podcast: UN Food Systems Summit Resistance</strong></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><em>Part One: Nnimmo Bassey and Kristen Lyons, please <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-one-nnimmo-bassey-kristen-lyons?utm_source=land_rights&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;utm_content=aside">click here</a> to access</em></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><em>Part Two: Elizabeth Mpofu, Alejandro Argumedo, and Anuradha Mittal, please <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-two-elizabeth-mpofu-alejandro-argumedo-anuradha-mittal?utm_source=land_rights&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;utm_content=aside">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</em></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><em>People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations: The Battle Over Global Food and Agriculture Governance</em>, a <a href="/upload/files/People%20versus%20agribusiness%20brief-un-food-systems-summit.pdf">policy brief</a> released today by the Oakland Institute, offers a detailed look and analysis of how the 2021 Food Systems Summit became the most uneventful UN event. The appointment of the President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), as UN Special Envoy of the summit, was the lightning rod that catalyzed global opposition. AGRA&rsquo;s push of monocultural, fossil fuel-based agriculture and promotion of genetically engineered crops has failed to deliver on its much touted promises, while devastating the livelihoods of farmers, holding national budgets hostage to chemical inputs and foreign corporations, and resulting in worsening hunger. In the months leading to the summit, an unprecedented number of petitions, public communications, and other advocacy actions mobilized millions around the world, including the organization of national and global counter summits. From Nigeria and the Philippines, to Zimbabwe and Peru, calls for a radical shift in our food and agriculture system &mdash; from destructive and polluting industrial corporate production to farmer-centred agro-ecological systems &mdash; made the summit moot.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><img alt="" src="/upload/images/Press%20release%20blurb.jpg" style="height:601px; width:599px" /></p>

<p style="text-align:justify">People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations calls out a number of powerful actors &mdash; the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, some Western governments, the World Bank, and others &mdash; who actively prevent the much needed transition as they continue to peddle corporate industrial agriculture. By leveraging financial support to countries to expand the use of agrochemicals and pesticides, their efforts undermine the principles of cooperation and multilateralism upheld by the United Nations institutions responsible for global food and agriculture such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Committee on World Food Security (CFS).</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">On the eve of the summit, a two-part podcast released by the Oakland Institute <em>(see below)</em> goes inside the global resistance and maps out the solutions advocated by farmers, researchers, and civil society organizations in the Global South. Featuring Nnimmo Bassey <em>(Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nigeria)</em>, Elizabeth Mpofu <em>(La Via Campesina, Zimbabwe)</em>, Alejandro Argumedo <em>(Swift Foundation, Peru)</em>, Kristen Lyons <em>(University of Queensland, Australia)</em>, Chivy Sok <em>(Tikvah Grassroots Empowerment Fund)</em> and Anuradha Mittal <em>(the Oakland Institute)</em>, the podcast elevates the voices of those on the frontlines of challenging the failed industrial agriculture model and working to ensure food sovereignty from the bottom up.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">While there were no expectations of the Food Systems Summit, it did catalyze and coalesce global opposition to Western corporate industrial agriculture. Millions of farmers and citizens rose up to hold international institutions and their own governments accountable.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">The United Nations were created by states. In today&rsquo;s globalized and interconnected world, when governments capitulate to corporate influence, civil society organizations, with cross border and multisectoral alliances, are the central force that defends the universalist values and principles on which this institution was built.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/food-systems-summit-battle-over-global-food-agriculture-governance">click here</a>&nbsp;to access the above press release.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><strong>For more information, please contact:</strong>&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><em>Anuradha Mittal &mdash; <a href="http://amittal@oaklandinstitute.org">amittal@oaklandinstitute.org</a>, &nbsp;+1-510-469-5228<br />
Frederic Mousseau &mdash; <a href="http://fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org">fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org</a>, &nbsp;+1-510-512-5458</em></p>

<p style="text-align:justify">###</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Listen to the Podcast: UN Food Systems Summit Resistance</strong></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><em>Part One: Nnimmo Bassey and Kristen Lyons, please <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-one-nnimmo-bassey-kristen-lyons?utm_source=land_rights&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;utm_content=aside">click here</a> to access</em></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><em>Part Two: Elizabeth Mpofu, Alejandro Argumedo, and Anuradha Mittal, please <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-two-elizabeth-mpofu-alejandro-argumedo-anuradha-mittal?utm_source=land_rights&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;utm_content=aside">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</em></p>

<p style="text-align:justify">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak</strong></p>
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Agribusiness Corporations: The Battle Over Global Food and Agriculture Governance</em>, a <a href="/upload/files/People%20versus%20agribusiness%20brief-un-food-systems-summit.pdf" title="/upload/files/People%20versus%20agribusiness%20brief-un-food-systems-summit.pdf">policy brief</a> released today by the Oakland Institute, offers a detailed look and analysis of how the 2021 Food Systems Summit became the most uneventful UN event. The appointment of the President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), as UN Special Envoy of the summit, was the lightning rod that catalyzed global opposition. AGRA&rsquo;s push of monocultural, fossil fuel-based agriculture and promotion of genetically engineered crops has failed to deliver on its much touted promises, while devastating the livelihoods of farmers, holding national budgets hostage to chemical inputs and foreign corporations, and resulting in worsening hunger. In the months leading to the summit, an unprecedented number of petitions, public communications, and other advocacy actions mobilized millions around the world, including the organization of national and global counter summits. From Nigeria and the Philippines, to Zimbabwe and Peru, calls for a radical shift in our food and agriculture system &mdash; from destructive and polluting industrial corporate production to farmer-centred agro-ecological systems &mdash; made the summit moot.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><img alt="" src="/upload/images/Press%20release%20blurb.jpg" style="height:601px; width:599px" /></p><p style="text-align:justify">People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations calls out a number of powerful actors &mdash; the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, some Western governments, the World Bank, and others &mdash; who actively prevent the much needed transition as they continue to peddle corporate industrial agriculture. By leveraging financial support to countries to expand the use of agrochemicals and pesticides, their efforts undermine the principles of cooperation and multilateralism upheld by the United Nations institutions responsible for global food and agriculture such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Committee on World Food Security (CFS).</p><p style="text-align:justify">On the eve of the summit, a two-part podcast released by the Oakland Institute <em>(see below)</em> goes inside the global resistance and maps out the solutions advocated by farmers, researchers, and civil society organizations in the Global South. Featuring Nnimmo Bassey <em>(Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nigeria)</em>, Elizabeth Mpofu <em>(La Via Campesina, Zimbabwe)</em>, Alejandro Argumedo <em>(Swift Foundation, Peru)</em>, Kristen Lyons <em>(University of Queensland, Australia)</em>, Chivy Sok <em>(Tikvah Grassroots Empowerment Fund)</em> and Anuradha Mittal <em>(the Oakland Institute)</em>, the podcast elevates the voices of those on the frontlines of challenging the failed industrial agriculture model and working to ensure food sovereignty from the bottom up.</p><p style="text-align:justify">While there were no expectations of the Food Systems Summit, it did catalyze and coalesce global opposition to Western corporate industrial agriculture. Millions of farmers and citizens rose up to hold international institutions and their own governments accountable.</p><p style="text-align:justify">The United Nations were created by states. In today&rsquo;s globalized and interconnected world, when governments capitulate to corporate influence, civil society organizations, with cross border and multisectoral alliances, are the central force that defends the universalist values and principles on which this institution was built.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/food-systems-summit-battle-over-global-food-agriculture-governance" title="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/food-systems-summit-battle-over-global-food-agriculture-governance">click here</a>&nbsp;to access the above press release.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>For more information, please contact:</strong>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Anuradha Mittal &mdash; <a href="http://amittal@oaklandinstitute.org" title="http://amittal@oaklandinstitute.org">amittal@oaklandinstitute.org</a>, &nbsp;+1-510-469-5228<br />Frederic Mousseau &mdash; <a href="http://fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org" title="http://fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org">fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org</a>, &nbsp;+1-510-512-5458</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">###</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Listen to the Podcast: UN Food Systems Summit Resistance</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Part One: Nnimmo Bassey and Kristen Lyons, please <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-one-nnimmo-bassey-kristen-lyons?utm_source=land_rights&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;utm_content=aside" title="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-one-nnimmo-bassey-kristen-lyons?utm_source=land_rights&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;utm_content=aside">click here</a> to access</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Part Two: Elizabeth Mpofu, Alejandro Argumedo, and Anuradha Mittal, please <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-two-elizabeth-mpofu-alejandro-argumedo-anuradha-mittal?utm_source=land_rights&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;utm_content=aside" title="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/un-food-systems-summit-resistance-two-elizabeth-mpofu-alejandro-argumedo-anuradha-mittal?utm_source=land_rights&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=information&amp;utm_content=aside">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak</strong></p>'
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UN Food Systems Summit: The Battle Over Global Food and Agriculture Governance -Oakland Institute

-Press release by Oakland Institute dated 21st September, 2021 Oakland, CA: The Food Systems Summit, hosted by the United Nations, has been reduced to a day-long virtual event on September 23, 2021 — a result of an unprecedented counter mobilization around the world. Hijacked by proponents of corporate industrial agriculture, the summit faced a united front from farmers, civil society groups, and social movements around the world, who rejected and mobilized against the takeover of global food and agriculture governance. People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations: The Battle Over Global Food and Agriculture Governance, a policy brief released today by the Oakland Institute, offers a detailed look and analysis of how the 2021 Food Systems Summit became the most uneventful UN event. The appointment of the President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), as UN Special Envoy of the summit, was the lightning rod that catalyzed global opposition. AGRA’s push of monocultural, fossil fuel-based agriculture and promotion of genetically engineered crops has failed to deliver on its much touted promises, while devastating the livelihoods of farmers, holding national budgets hostage to chemical inputs and foreign corporations, and resulting in worsening hunger. In the months leading to the summit, an unprecedented number of petitions, public communications, and other advocacy actions mobilized millions around the world, including the organization of national and global counter summits. From Nigeria and the Philippines, to Zimbabwe and Peru, calls for a radical shift in our food and agriculture system — from destructive and polluting industrial corporate production to farmer-centred agro-ecological systems — made the summit moot. People Vs. Agribusiness Corporations calls out a number of powerful actors — the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, some Western governments, the World Bank, and others — who actively prevent the much needed transition as they continue to peddle corporate industrial agriculture. By leveraging financial support to countries to expand the use of agrochemicals and pesticides, their efforts undermine the principles of cooperation and multilateralism upheld by the United Nations institutions responsible for global food and agriculture such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Committee on World Food Security (CFS). On the eve of the summit, a two-part podcast released by the Oakland Institute (see below) goes inside the global resistance and maps out the solutions advocated by farmers, researchers, and civil society organizations in the Global South. Featuring Nnimmo Bassey (Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nigeria), Elizabeth Mpofu (La Via Campesina, Zimbabwe), Alejandro Argumedo (Swift Foundation, Peru), Kristen Lyons (University of Queensland, Australia), Chivy Sok (Tikvah Grassroots Empowerment Fund) and Anuradha Mittal (the Oakland Institute), the podcast elevates the voices of those on the frontlines of challenging the failed industrial agriculture model and working to ensure food sovereignty from the bottom up. While there were no expectations of the Food Systems Summit, it did catalyze and coalesce global opposition to Western corporate industrial agriculture. Millions of farmers and citizens rose up to hold international institutions and their own governments accountable. The United Nations were created by states. In today’s globalized and interconnected world, when governments capitulate to corporate influence, civil society organizations, with cross border and multisectoral alliances, are the central force that defends the universalist values and principles on which this institution was built. Please click here to access the above press release.  For more information, please contact:  Anuradha Mittal — amittal@oaklandinstitute.org,  +1-510-469-5228 Frederic Mousseau — fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org,  +1-510-512-5458 ### Listen to the Podcast: UN Food Systems Summit Resistance Part One: Nnimmo Bassey and Kristen Lyons, please click here to access Part Two: Elizabeth Mpofu, Alejandro Argumedo, and Anuradha Mittal, please click here to access    Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak