{"id":50910,"date":"2021-09-01T08:32:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T07:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=50910"},"modified":"2021-09-01T08:32:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T07:32:09","slug":"un-food-systems-summit-leaders-must-not-remain-silent-on-its-inadequate-rules-of-engagement-with-commercial-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2021\/09\/01\/un-food-systems-summit-leaders-must-not-remain-silent-on-its-inadequate-rules-of-engagement-with-commercial-actors\/","title":{"rendered":"UN food systems summit leaders must not remain silent on its inadequate rules of engagement with commercial actors\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pre-summit to September\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/food-systems-summit\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">United Nations Food Systems Summit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (UNFSS), held in Rome at the end of July 2021, confirmed the fears of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodpolitics.com\/2021\/07\/the-un-summit-on-food-systems-2-the-critique\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a broad range of international actors<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that the UNFSS model allows for corporate capture of international policy on healthy and sustainable food systems. Coverage in the BBC <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m000y5fg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Food Programme<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> demonstrates that concerns have moved into the mainstream, despite the hopes of many that the UNFSS could still help fix a broken food system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pre-summit <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sites\/un2.un.org\/files\/pre-summit_final_program_july_23_2021.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">programme<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> included sessions<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0with representatives of international food companies and organisations representing tobacco, alcohol, and food industries. This reflects the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fsufs.2021.661552\/full?&amp;utm_source=Email_to_authors_&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&amp;utm_campaign=Email_publication&amp;field=&amp;journalName=Frontiers_in_Sustainable_Food_Systems&amp;id=661552\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">involvement <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by the organisers of Davos and other industry representatives in the pre-summit. At Davos multinational companies are not so much held to account for their impact on public health and the environment, but celebrated for headline grabbing initiatives, without mechanisms in place to ensure follow-through. While taking the stage at the pre-summit, representatives of corporate interests cast doubt (again) on the definition of healthy diets and congratulated themselves for educating consumers on nutrition. Relatively few public health advocates were given the floor, except for a handful of health ministries, and representatives of small island nations, who highlighted their devastating burden of diet-related non-communicable diseases\u2014NCDs. Aside from this, there were limited voices challenging the voice of the food industry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, the alternative summit\u2014the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slowfood.com\/thousands-mobilize-to-call-for-food-systems-that-empower-people-not-companies\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">People\u2019s counter mobilization<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to transform corporate food systems<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reinforced how the process for the UN food systems summit has failed to ensure authentic inclusion of many unheard voices, despite being referred to by the UN as a \u201cpeople\u2019s summit.\u201d The voices of First Nations people, peasants groups, landless peoples, and food workers have been particularly neglected, and the summit has been all the poorer for it. Traditional custodians of the lands\u2019 voices risk yet again being dismissed and erased, thereby missing a wealth of knowledge and expertise. The UNFSS leadership\u2019s response to these critiques has maintained the line that \u201ceveryone has a seat at the table\u201d, and stressing the large number of people who remain \u201cin.\u201d UNFSS special envoy Agnes Kalibata, wrote a letter in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/mar\/09\/the-un-food-systems-summit-will-consider-all-stakeholders-interests\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guardian<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> stressing that the summit will consider all stakeholder\u2019s interests.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But, arguing that everyone has a seat at the table and portraying people as simply \u201cin\u201d or \u201cout\u201d are rhetorical flourishes which obscure the fact that many individuals and organisations involved in the UNFSS processes (including some of the authors of this Opinion) harbour concerns about how the UNFSS is proceeding and the precedent it may set for future food system action. Many organisations have worked tirelessly with limited resources and in good faith to try to co-produce truly inclusive and meaningful outcomes. But the UNFSS exhibits blindspots in areas most challenging to \u201cbig food,\u201d including growing evidence of the significant health and planetary consequences of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/gh.bmj.com\/content\/6\/7\/e006885\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ultra processed foods<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and deafening silence on food system governance, including power imbalances, unethical lobbying, and inappropriate marketing to children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Portraying critics as anti-business is also a tactic that closes down debate on the right way for UN agencies to interact with the private sector where conflicts of interest need to be addressed. There are a number of different rules derived from UN agencies\u2019 principles of engagement (e.g., the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unscn.org\/files\/Structure\/SCN_and_the_Private_Sector\/SCN_Private_Sector_Engagement_Policy.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Private Sector Engagement Policy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of the former UN System Standing Committee on Nutrition, or the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/documents\/publications\/guidingprinciplesbusinesshr_en.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">), or those from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionforgrowth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/CommitmentGuide_4.27.21.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">other international summits <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that can keep more difficult issues on the agenda, while holding corporate actors to account.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A broad coalition of organisations, including some of us still involved as members of UNFSS <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/food-systems-summit\/action-tracks\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Action Tracks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, held a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/summitdialogues.org\/dialogue\/23190\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">public consultation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthysocieties2030.org\/open-letter-un-food-systems-summit\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to the UN Secretary General and summit leadership ahead of the pre-summit to suggest a number of improvements based on the aforementioned good practice. Despite the letter being signed by over 100 food systems actors across five continents, along with considerable support from public health leaders working across the nutrition spectrum, from infant feeding to diet-related NCDs, there has been no response.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UNFSS \u201crules\u201d are restricted to a set of platitudes in the official <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/food-systems-summit\/vision-principles\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Principles of Engagement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, such as \u201cbuild trust\u201d and \u201cbe respectful,\u201d based on no prior principles that we can find. Such vague entreaties are neither practicable nor monitorable. They point to a new way of doing business at these summits that are designed to avoid difficult conversations and upsetting powerful actors. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Given the role of ultra-processed<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/pubmed\/fdr008\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">food and drink producers in driving global morbidity and mortality<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, particularly from NCDs, this is the UN system shirking collective responsibility.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Securing a truly transformative, evidence-informed agenda for the health of people and the planet requires actively tackling conflicts of interest, promoting accountability, and ensuring coherence with existing governance mechanisms to promote meaningful engagement of communities, self-determination, and rights-based approaches. Indeed, as Member State-led coalitions emerge toward the UNFSS, established to deliver on promises such as zero hunger, it is crucial that mechanisms are in place which protect their interactions from harmful vested interests.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In sharing drafts of our letter, we were encouraged to see support coming from leading multilateral organisations, with some unable to voice their concerns publicly, but advocating behind the scenes nonetheless. Other public health actors airing similar <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/koya.org.uk\/beware-the-nutri-washers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">critiques<\/span> <\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">have seen strong support. Might this be a turning point?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ahead of September\u2019s UNFSS, and future summits designed in this vein, we ask other public health actors to support those working from inside the planning process to advocate for a set of meaningful rules of engagement and protective mechanisms from vested interests, for transparency and accountability, and, as a UN summit, bringing the UNFSS back in line with conflicts of interest protocols designed by UN organisations, for example by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/nutrition\/consultation-doi\/nutrition-introductory-paper.pdf?ua=1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">World Health O<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">rganization (WHO)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and other <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionforgrowth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/CommitmentGuide_4.27.21.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">international summits<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Member States, with their obligation to respect, protect, and fulfill human rights remain at the heart of the multilateral system, have been disappointingly quiet on this gradual abrogation of their responsibilities to big food, and some even complicit. The UNFSS could be a game changing cog in the wheel to improving the health of people and the planet, but it will only do so if we are all invested in ensuring its legitimacy which hinges on the integrity of its process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Nicholas Nisbett<\/strong>, Leader, Health and Nutrition Cluster, Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Kent Buse<\/strong>, Director, Healthier Societies Program, The George Institute for Global Health.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Jeff Collin<\/strong>, Professor of Global Health Policy, University of Edinburgh &amp; SPECTRUM research consortium.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Lesli Hoey<\/strong>, Associate Professor, Urban and Regional Planning Program, Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, University of Michigan.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Lucy Westerman<\/strong>, Policy and Campaigns Manager, NCD Alliance.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors declare no interests other than NN, LH and LW membership of the UNFSS Action Tracks mentioned in the Opinion; NN also declares a previous funding relationship with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pre-summit to September\u2019s United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), held in Rome at the end of July 2021, confirmed the fears of a broad range of international actors that [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2021\/09\/01\/un-food-systems-summit-leaders-must-not-remain-silent-on-its-inadequate-rules-of-engagement-with-commercial-actors\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":50918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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