Food Policy and Governance in a post 2015 Era

Abstract

Food and agriculture are at the heart of globalized economic and geopolitical interests and at the intersection of a range of contentious governance issues and regimes, from trade to climate change, biodiversity, land and water grabbing. They are also the site of strong social movement mobilization which has contributed to transforming the Committee on World Food Security into an innovative laboratory of inclusive global governance. Three significant trends seems to have greatly affected the global governance of food security and agriculture over the last 10 years: (i) the growing involvement of the private corporate sector, which finds new political space with the rise of so called “multi-stakeholder platforms”; (ii) the multiplication of forums, both intergovernmental and “multi-stakeholder”, in which issues related to food security and agriculture are dealt with in a fragmented manner; (iii) and the horizontal and vertical extension and convergence of territorial-rooted peoples’ food sovereignty movements that impact on governance at multiple levels. Drawing on experience in a variety of such forums and processes— multistakeholder platforms such as the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement or the Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture; intergovernmental processes, such as the Committee on World Food Security or the CAADP at a regional scale — this panel will discuss changing power relations in food and agriculture governance and how this relates to two interrelated issues: the level of inclusiveness and accountability of these forum and their transformative capacity towards more equitable and sustainable food systems.

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