« The changing structure of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) threatens the food security of the Global South. Speaking to Indian publication Rural Voice in October 2022, Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, sounded worried: “The process behind One CGIAR poses a direct threat to the right to self-determination and the ability of states to set their own agricultural research agendas … and for local communities to control their own food system.” « .
Carol Thompson, a political economist currently working in Zimbabwe, has been learning from smallholder farmers about issues of food sovereignty for several decades. Read the whole article : here
