This session brings together stakeholders, or rather ‘rightsholders’, who represent different parts of power structures within food systems; from farmers and indigenous peoples to governments and civil society.
Panellists consider the role of power (and its increasing consolidation) in influencing people’s lived realities, and how it may constrain the realisation of each person’s full capacity (e.g. through limiting access to nutrition, or income). They also address the processes that shape power relationships as a key route to identifying how they can be changed to create greater equality.
This is an official UN Food Systems Pre-Summit event co-organised by Chatham House and Bharat Krishak Samaj (Farmers’ Forum India).
Participants
Jay Naidoo, former Founding Trustee, Earthrise Trust; and former Chairman, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Nitya Rao, Director, Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development, University of East Anglia
Ertharin Cousin, Founder and CEO at Food Systems for the Future; Distinguished Fellow, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights; former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food; and Co-Chair, International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems
Sylvia Mallari, Global Co-Chairperson, People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty
Chair: Professor Tim Benton, Research Director, Energy, Environment and Resources Programme, Chatham House
Chair: Ajay Vir Jakhar, Chairman, Bharat Krishak Samaj (Farmers’ Forum India)
