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Presenter(s): Matthew Canfield (Leiden University, Netherlands, The), Jessica Duncan (Rural Sociology, Wageningen University), Priscilla Claeys (Coventry University), Leonardo van den Berg (Toekomstboeren), Els Hegger (Rural Sociology, Wageningen University)
Over the past decade, the concept of “food systems governance” has gained greater traction as civil society, governments, international institutions, and researchers increasingly understand the need to holistically address the public health, climate, and economic dimensions of food. In 2021, this culminated with a Global Food Systems Summit organized by the UN Secretary General. Yet the Summit also revealed competing interests, epistemic commitments and visions of global governance that significantly threaten the prospects of building effective and democratic governance of global food systems. As a result, many civil society organizations and indigenous peoples’ movements boycotted or threatened to withdraw their participation from the Food Systems Summit. Moreover, in the wake of the Summit, global geopolitical conflict grew more intense. In late 2022, this global geopolitical fracturing led to the failure to effectively address food systems in the context of the convergence of crises caused by the climate, COVID-19, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
This transdisciplinary roundtable asks: What are the possibilities, transformations, and limitations in constructing effective food systems governance in the current moment and beyond? Participants (including representatives of movements, NGOs, and academics) will reflect on their research and engagement across different arenas of global and regional governance and issue areas—from agroecology to digitalization—to consider this question. An outcome of this roundtable could be a research agenda for a Food Systems Governance Group within Earth Systems Governance.
