The growing influence of corporations on the governance of food systems, and how to counter it

of corporate participation by the UNFSS leadership 5 WHO’S TIPPING THE SCALES This Briefing Note examines the implications of the to those who are most affected by the actions of large growing influence of large agribusiness corporations and powerful corporations, and the impacts of the on the international governance of food systems and industrial food system on people and the planet. [...] In the US, for example, Bayer AG spent industry as well as in the agrochemical sector.43 In upwards of USD 9 million lobbying the US government the case of the latter, for example, the recent release in 2019, a year after it purchased Monsanto and the of internal documents from Monsanto as part of same year the US was reviewing whether to re-register court proceedings revealed that in the run-up t. [...] Many movements and organizations involved in the Nyéléni process have committed to demand observance and conditions for the implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP). [...] within the framework of internationally recognized human rights, the international human rights obligations of the countries in which they operate as well as relevant domestic laws and regulations, have a policy commitment to respect human rights and carry out human rights due diligence as appropriate to their size, the nature and context of operations and the severity of the risks of adverse huma. [...] The under the to identify, prevent, and Committee welcomes, in International mitigate the risks of this regard, any efforts Covenant on violations of Covenant rights, at the adoption of Economic, to avoid such rights being international instruments Social and abused, and to account for that could strengthen the Cultural the negative impacts caused duty of states to cooperate Rights in or contribut.