The Global People’s Summit (GPS) on Food Systems is a Global South-led counter-summit to the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) and its corporate agenda. Happening on September 21 to 23, the GPS gathered the broadest number of rural peoples, people’s organizations, CSOs, and advocates on-ground and online to develop a People’s Action Plan and draw up a Declaration for the radical transformation of the current food regimes towards just, equitable, healthy, and sustainable food systems.
This event formulated the region-specific analysis, demands, and action plans. Policy recommendations and action plans that will result from the consultation will be presented during the closing plenary of the Global People's Summit on Food Systems on September 23.
The African Centre for Biodiversity, as part of the counter mobilisation, on 27 July, met to launch an African position statement, which outlines why they reject the UNFSS, as a continuation of neo-colonial development, corporate capture and the agrarian extractivism on the continent. You can read the AU draft position here.
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- Deliberate attempts to introduce GM crops in the name of food security and increased nutrition/biofortification are underway despite peoples’ protests. The controversial genetically modified (GM) Golden Rice, has surfaced again with the Philippines Rice Research Institute rushing through the commercial clearance despite popular opposition to GR not only in the Philippines but also in Bangladesh, Indonesia and India.
- Organized by the Stop Golden Rice! Network Asia, People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty, and A Growing Culture.
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