Reconfiguring Food Systems Governance: The UNFSS and the Battle Over Authority and Legitimacy

Matthew C. Canfield (), Jessica Duncan and Priscilla Claeys
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Matthew C. Canfield: Leiden Law School
Jessica Duncan: Wageningen University
Priscilla Claeys: Coventry University

Development, 2021, vol. 64, issue 3, 181-191

Abstract: Abstract The UN Food Systems Summit was an ambitious and hotly contested event that brought competing approaches to global food governance into relief. In this article, we unpack the rival visions that circulate around how food systems should be governed, focusing on two issues that we feel are at the heart of these divergences: authority and legitimacy. We illustrate how both corporate-philanthropic and food sovereignty networks are struggling to establish epistemic authority of food systems as well as produce legitimacy through very different approaches to participation and accountability.

Keywords: Multilateralism; Multi-stakeholderism; UN Committee on World Food Security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1057/s41301-021-00312-1

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