A Trade Agenda for the Right to Food

Fakhri, Michael

doi:10.1057/s41301-021-00305-0

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“…At the root of the barriers explored during the Forum are unjust power dynamics, which tend to work against workers' interests. There is growing recognition of the need to address power imbalances within food systems, as highlighted by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Michael Fakhri and others concerned with corporate domination of the recent UN Food System Summit (Clapp, 2021;Clapp et al, 2021;Fakhri, 2021). As Clapp notes, a small number of large companies bear huge influence on how food is produced and conditions for food system workers, with profit prioritized over livelihoods (2021).…”

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Pathways for advancing good work in food systems: Reflecting on the international Good Work for Good Food Forum

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Medland²,

Nicol³

et al. 2023

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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The crucial roles that workers, especially seasonal and migrant workers, play in our food systems have come under renewed attention in recent years. The coronavirus pandemic resulted in food workers being recognized as critical or essential workers in many countries. In 2021, this coincided with the UN International Year of Fruits and Vegetables (IYFV), highlighting the importance of horticultural crops to healthy lives globally. Yet, workers’ quality of life in this most labor-intensive form of food production is often disregarded, or in the case of the UN IYFV, misconstrued. The agriculture-migration nexus—on which food systems depend—remains recognized as a challenge, yet there is limited debate about how it could be ameliorated and a lack of articulation of desirable alternatives. While alternative food and peasant movements propose food system transformation and alternative labor futures based on agroecology, labor lawyers and other advocates propose regulation and formalization of workplace regimes to ensure fair working conditions. Most recently, a third possibility has emerged from agri-tech innovators: a techno-centric future with far fewer agricultural workers. These three archetypes of agricultural labor futures (agroecological, formally regulated, and techno-centric) have the potential to leave food scholars and activists without a unified, coherent vision to advance. Addressing this gap, this paper reports and builds on insights harvested from the international Good Work for Good Food Forum, organized by the authors with the aim of shaping consensus on positive visions for work in food systems. About 40 scholar-activists across three continents discussed the current challenges facing food workers and crafted a collective vision for good food work. This vision is documented in the form of nine principles supported by a framework of seven enabling pathways. We conclude by emphasizing the need for a people-centered incorporation of technology and a re-valuation of food workers’ contributions to global food systems. We offer the vision as a collective platform for action to advocate for and organize with workers in food systems.

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Section: Summary Of Current Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pathways for advancing good work in food systems: Reflecting on the international Good Work for Good Food Forum

Klassen

Medland²,

Nicol³

et al. 2023

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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“…I have suggested that the 2021 Summit can also be understood as an inter-corporate contest between the newer “green” agri-food businesses (practicing so-called sustainable intensive agriculture) versus the older industrial intensive agrifood sector – with both parties substantively ignoring social justice and human rights (Fakhri, 2021b ). The world’s food systems have been dominated by corporations and marked by crisis for at least the last 60 years.…”

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The Food System Summit’s Disconnection From People’s Real Needs

Fakhri

2022

J Agric Environ Ethics

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The United Nations (UN) Food Systems Summit held in September 2021 has left the world with a jumble of ideas and no clear path forward for transforming the world’s food systems. The Summit was touted as the ultimate place to provide the world with solutions – but it never clarified the problems with the dominant food systems leaving participants with no coherent or cohesive framework. Most distressingly, the Food Systems Summit did not put the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing food crisis anywhere on its agenda. In this Policy Perspective, the author, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, provides his first-hand account of the effects of the Summit not focusing on people’s immediate needs during a food crisis. The author briefly touches upon the Summit’s role in the global debate around meat consumption. This debate exemplifies how the Summit did very little to change the substance of global food debates. Instead, the Summit can be understood as an inter-corporate contest that did not have any substantive regard for social justice or human rights.

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“…131–132). As Fakhri States, the AA has not achieved a liberal global market and has not benefited developing countries, but has been favoring powerful States and their corporations (UNGA, 22 July 2020, p. 7; Fakhri, 2021, p. 215).…”

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A regime complex for food assistance: international law regulating international food assistance

Delaville

2023

JITLP

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Purpose There is no single undertaking regulating food assistance at the international level. International food assistance is regulated by a patchwork of rules emanating from different institutions and normative arrangements. This study aims to explore how international law shapes international food assistance. How is international law regulating food assistance, considering this patchwork of institutions and norms? What dominant narratives enshrined in legal agreements shape the evolution of international food assistance? Design/methodology/approach The author uses the concept of “regime complex”, which allows analyzing partially overlapping and nonhierarchical regimes governing a particular issue, shedding light on the narratives and institutional arrangements that lead to the consolidation of international rules. The author identifies two main regimes that govern international food assistance: the food assistance regime and the food trade regime. Findings The author shows that using the “regime complex” concept clarifies the evolution of international food assistance, highlighting that international law is a crucial element in shaping international food assistance and showing that the two main institutional regimes governing it interact and shape rules along three main themes: the centrality of donor states’ self-interests, the relationship between international food assistance and trade liberalization and the goal of achieving food security for the beneficiaries. Originality/value Using the regime complex concept, the author brings new light on the broader institutional and legal framework influencing the governance of international food assistance, showing that different regimes take part in its shaping.

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A Trade Agenda for the Right to Food

Cited by 6 publications

References 7 publications

Pathways for advancing good work in food systems: Reflecting on the international Good Work for Good Food Forum

Pathways for advancing good work in food systems: Reflecting on the international Good Work for Good Food Forum

The Food System Summit’s Disconnection From People’s Real Needs

A regime complex for food assistance: international law regulating international food assistance

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