Editorial: Resetting Power in Global Food Governance: The UN Food Systems Summit (original) (raw)

In this editorial, we use the term 'food system' to encompass the entire range of actors and their interlinked activities involved in the production, aggregation, processing, distribution, consumption and disposal of food products that originate from agriculture, forestry, or fisheries, and parts of the broader economic, societal and natural environments in which they are embedded (FAO 2014). We use 'the global food system' to refer to the current hegemonic order. This food system, which McMichael (2009) refers to as the 'corporate food regime', emerged out of the global economic shocks of the 1970s and 1980s ushering in the current period of neoliberal capitalist expansion. It is characterized by unprecedented market power of monopoly agrifood corporations and finance capital, globalized ani