Trends and contradictions of the corporate influence on the United Nations agrifood agenda
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https://doi.org/10.30612/rmufgd.v7i13.8726Keywords:
Corporations, Global Governance, Food Security, United Nations, NeoliberalismAbstract
Since the millennium turn, the participation of transnational corporations and philanthropic entities in the UN development and human rights agenda has been increasing. Besides the Global Compact, new spaces for cooperation and dialogue among enterprises and UN agencies were designed or are currently being proposed. In the global governance of agriculture and food, this interaction is notable and presents its own profile and dynamics, which is the result of the strategic nature assumed by these partnerships in the agenda of both corporations and international organizations (IOs). This article discusses how the influence of corporations on the UN agrifood agenda has been occurring. In this perspective, it focuses on the political and institutional interactions between agribusiness transnational corporations and three organizations/programs of the UN system – the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agriculture and Development (IFAD) and the World Food Program (WFP), by exposing the reasons and mechanisms responsible for the approximation of these actors, by the time that highlights some of the contradictions that emerge from this relationship. Finally, it maps some of the analytical challenges that poses to the observation of the contractions in the intersection between private actors and the global agrifood governance.
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