This week the UN is hosting a summit on how to feed a growing world population under the pressure of climate change. Two Swiss agricultural researchers explain why they are boycotting this event. Johanna Jacobi and Stephan Rist are not in New York this week, when many different players will be meeting under the aegis of the United Nations to discuss how to overcome world hunger. This is not because they don't support the goal. But they are critical of how the summit is being organised and have decided – together with over 200 scientists from around the world, as well as trade unions, former UN Special Rapporteurs and NGOs – to boycott the meeting. UN Food Systems Summit The UN Food Systems Summit, being held during the UN General Assembly in New York on September 23, is intended to advance global food systems transformation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Instead, they will be taking part in a “counter summit”. Its slogan, “Farmers, not corporations, feed...
