“Those years were golden years for them, not the country. They had absolute and ultimate power over anything, and that allowed them to accumulate so much resources for their benefit, not the Filipino people,” Diokno said in an interview.
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Wednesday, 14 July 2021, 10:30 am
Shobha Shukla – CNS
While the governments chant
the mantra of leaving no one behind , it is ironic that
they are abetting corporate grabbing of land and resources,
which is pushing farmers out of agriculture. Corporations
are exercising more and more control over food and
agriculture and influencing public policies. The forthcoming
United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021, tentatively to be
held in September 2021 and convened by the Secretary-General
of the United Nations, purports to transform the way the
world produces and consumes food, and leverage these actions
to deliver progress on all the 17 Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs).
However, one fears that with UN
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A civil society call to reclaim food systems from corporate control: On World Environment Day, farmers, consumers, environmentalists, sectoral groups held a press launch of the Global People's Summit on Food Systems today, June 5, 2021. The Global People's Summit is a people-led campaign for the radical transformation of food systems, to counter the upcoming United…