The world’s food system has seen a dramatic transformation over the last decades. I am not talking about what we eat. I am not talking about the latest food trends, Quinoa, veggies, paleo, cxraft beer and so on. I am talking about the economic structures, about who is producing and trading what we eat. This transformation has led to an enormous concentration and globalisation of the food and agricultural sector. Until the 1970’s, we had a great diversity of regional markets, regional producers, regional pricesetting mechanisms. Today, this is history. Now we are facing a system dominated by multinational corporations, a Corporate Food Regime, with so-called globalised value chains, driven by the logic of profit, excuse me, today it is called: shareholder value. Profit is such a dirty word, isn’t it? It has become increasingly difficult to control or influence these structures by democratic policymaking in the public interest. You have seen the latest well-publicised example when the allround pesticide glyphosate had its license in the EU renewed recently under more than dubious circumstances.Read More