Editorial: Resetting Power in Global Food Governance: The UN Food Systems Summit
Maywa Montenegro de Wit, Matthew Canfield, Alastair Iles, Molly D. Anderson, Nora McKeon, Shalmali Guttal, Barbara Gemmill‐Herren, Jessica Duncan, J.D. van der Ploeg, Stefano Del Prato
Abstract
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 It is characterized by unprecedented market power of monopoly agrifood corporations and finance capital, globalized ani-