As of 31 January 2021, a total of 153 organizations from 31 countries and seven advocates have supported this sign-on statement.
This was sent to concerned UN offices such as the Committee on World Food Security and officials including
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri.
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We, civil society organizations, grassroots groups, and advocates for the welfare of marginalized sectors, call for the revocation of the 2019 Strategic Partnership between the United Nations (UN) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its implications for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

We express our grave concerns with regard to the WEF’s opportunism in attempting to influence the processes and outcome of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit (FSS) through this partnership. The WEF – an organized global platform in which the world’s corporate giants, plutocrats and heads of states converge to promote the corporate agenda in the guise of “improving the state of the world” – aims to cement its dictate through the recalibration of our food systems and agriculture. By positioning themselves as indispensable actors in accelerating the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, they are, in reality, attempting to further their own interests in amassing super-profits. A clear indication of this is their financing of the 2030 Agenda as the first area of focus specified in the UN-WEF strategic partnership framework and the appointment of an agribusiness representative as the Special Envoy for the Summit.

We reject this corporate hijacking of the 2021 FSS. The WEF will exploit the Summit to streamline neoliberal globalization, which it has espoused for the past 50 years. It is the perfect venue to push for the role of “Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies” to transform food systems, which the WEF has been championing since 2017. A corporate-led FSS would be a great advantage to the political elites and corporate billionaires, enabling them to pose hypocritically as responsible entities that promote healthier diets and climate action.

We therefore, urge the UN to rescind the involvement of the WEF in the FSS. We recognize the Summit’s potential for decisively addressing the structural issues hounding our food systems and agriculture, but the change we envision is impossible to achieve so long as the WEF is involved. It would mean that global inequality and corporate monopoly would be sidetracked rather than confronted as the root causes of perennial hunger, malnutrition and extreme poverty in the world.

Lastly, we appeal for inclusivity. The sidelined and marginalized sectors in society – the poor farmers, workers, Indigenous Peoples, herders, pastoralists, fisherfolks, urban poor, women, Dalits, and youth – should replace these corporate moguls in shaping the Summit’s proceedings and reforms. Their demands, interests, and welfare should set the tone and direction of the Summit’s declarations. People’s rights should take center stage in the 2021 UN FSS.

For a truly inclusive transformation of food systems! ###

Signatories (this list is regularly updated):

Global/International

1. People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS)
2. Youth for Food Sovereignty
3. IBON International
4. International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL)
5. Dayak International Organization
6. Global Forest Coalition
7. International Movement of Catholic Agricultural and Rural Youth (MIJARC)
8. Pacific Islands Association of Non-Governmental Organisations

Regional

1. Asian Peasant Coalition
2. Asia Pacific Research Network
3. Arab Group for the Protection of Nature, WANA
4. Arab Network for Food Sovereignty, WANA
5. PAN Asia Pacific
6. PCFS Europe
7. Eastern & Southern Africa Farmers’ Forum

National:

1. Agencia de Desarrollo Local Nariño, Colombia
2. Aliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria (AGRA), Indonesia
3. Alin Ein Development, Myanmar
4. All Bangla Fishermen’s Association, Bangladesh
5. All Nepal Agriculture Workers’ Association
6. All Nepal Agro-Forest Peasants’ Association
7. All Nepal Bee-Keeping Peasants’ Association
8. All Nepal Cardamom Producer Peasants’ Association
9. All Nepal Cereal Producer Peasants’ Association
10. All Nepal Coffee Farmers’ Association
11. All Nepal Dairy Farmers’ Association
12. All Nepal Dalit and Landless Peasants’ Association
13. All Nepal Fish Farmers’ Association
14. All Nepal Fruit Farmers’ Association
15. All Nepal Ginger-Turmeric Producer Peasants’ Association
16. All Nepal Herb Producer Peasants’ Association
17. All Nepal Irrigation-Water Users’ Association
18. All Nepal Livestock Farmers’ Association
19. All Nepal Mushroom Farmers’ Association
20. All Nepal Nursery and Floriculture Peasants’ Association
21. All Nepal Nut Farmers’ Association
22. All Nepal Peasants’ Federation
23. All Nepal Potato Producer Peasants’ Association
24. All Nepal Poultry Farmers’ Association
25. All Nepal Rubber Farmers’ Association
26. All Nepal Spice Producers Peasants’ Association
27. All Nepal Sugarcane Farmers’ Association
28. All Nepal Tea Producer Peasants’ Association
29. All Nepal Vegetable Farmers’ Association
30. All Nepal Women Peasants’ Association
31. Amihan National Federation of Peasant Women, Philippines
32. Andra Pradesh Agricultural Workers Union (APVVU), India
33. Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation
34. Bangladesh Krishok Federation
35. Bangladesh Resource Center for Indigenous Knowledge
36. Cambodia’s Independent Civic-Servant Association
37. Campaign for Peace and Democracy, Manipur
38. Centre for Human Rights & Development, Mongolia
39. Chama District Women’s Development Association, Zambia
40. Coalition of Cambodian Farmer Communities, Cambodia
41. Communities for Alternative Food Ecosystems Initiative (CAFEi), Philippines
42. Community Medicine Development Foundation, Philippines
43. Confederación Agrosolidaria Colombia
44. Council for People’s Development and Governance, Philippines
45. Ducho Nutrition Services, Nigeria
46. Equipo Comunitario de Ladera por la Promocion de la Vida y la Salud, Colombia
47. Farmer Affairs Network, Burma
48. Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal
49. Federation of Kirant Indigenous Associations Nepal
50. Food Coalition of Mongolia
51. Food Security Network (Khani), Bangladesh
52. Front Mahasiswa Nasional, Indonesia
53. Gaza Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Platform, Palestine
54. Global Institute for Youth Development, Philippines
55. Global Justice Ecology Project, USA
56. Gwanda Community Economic Justice Development Trust, Zimbabwe
57. Institute for National and Democracy Studies, Indonesia
58. Institute for Sustainable Development Strategy, Kyrgyztan
59. Instituto Politécnico Tomás Katari, Bolivia
60. Janawaboda Kendraya, Sri Lanka
61. Kenya Small Scale Farmers Forum
62. Kerala Agricultural Workers Union (KVVU), India
63. Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas, Philippines
64. Labour Resource Center, Bangladesh
65. Land Research Center, Palestine
66. Magsasaka at Siyentipiko sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura, Philippines
67. Metta Development Foundation, Myanmar
68. Mindanao Interfaith Services Foundation Inc., Philippines
69. Moningolig Pogun Tokou, Sabah
70. Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform, Sri Lanka
71. National Agricultural Workers Forum, India
72. Nasyat Network for Biocultural Diversity, Kyrgyztan
73. National Alliance of Social Security, India
74. National Centre for Labour, India
75. National Federation of Sugar Workers, Philippines
76. National Fisheries Solidarity Movement, Sri Lanka
77. National Network of Agrarian Reform Advocates – Youth, Philippines
78. National Women Farmers & Workers Association, Bangladesh
79. N’gombe Na Mahindi campaign (N’goma campaign), Kenya
80. Oasis Environmental Management and Healthy Watch, Zambia
81. Participatory Research Action Network, Bangladesh
82. Pemuda Baru, Indonesia
83. Peoples Culture Collective, Sri Lanka
84. Ponlok Khmer, Cambodia
85. Public Eye, Switzerland
86. Rainbow Homes Program-ARUN, India
87. Real Food Systems, Nepal
88. Resistance and Alternatives to Globalization, Indonesia
89. Rural Women’s Assembly, Namibia
90. Serikat Perempuan, Indonesia
91. Sibol ng Agham at Teknolohiya, Philippines
92. Society for Rural Education and Development, India
93. Society for Wetland Biodiversity Conservation Nepal
94. Sojhla for Social Change, Pakistan
95. Struggle to Economize Future Environment, Cameroon
96. Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment, Uganda
97. Tamil Nadu Women’s Forum, India
98. Tenaganita (Women’s Force), Malaysia
99. Tengala Agricultural Workers Union (TVVU), India
100. Unión Latinoamericana de Técnicos Rurales y Agrarios, Argentina
101. Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura, Philippines
102. Vikalpani Women’s Federation, Sri Lanka
103. Visura Youth Media Team, Sri Lanka
104. Witness Radio Organisation, Uganda
105. Youth for Change Initiative, Nigeria
106. Youth Peasants’ Organisation, Nepal
107. Zambia Social Forum, Zambia

Local:

1. AGRA City of Kupang, Indonesia
2. AGRA Province of Banten, Indonesia
3. AGRA Province of Central Java, Indonesia
4. AGRA Province of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
5. AGRA Province of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
6. AGRA Province of East Java, Indonesia
7. AGRA Province of Lampung, Indonesia
8. AGRA Province of Riau, Indonesia
9. AGRA Province of South Sulawesi, Indonesia
10. AGRA Province of West Java, Indonesia
11. AGRA Province of West Kalimantan, Indonesia
12. AGRA Province of West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
13. AGRA Regency of Bandung, Indonesia
14. AGRA Regency of Bulukumba, Indonesia
15. AGRA Regency of Buol, Indonesia
16. AGRA Regency of Central Lombok, Indonesia
17. AGRA Regency of Donggala, Indonesia
18. AGRA Regency of East Lombok, Indonesia
19. AGRA Regency of Garut, Indonesia
20. AGRA Regency of Kandis, Indonesia
21. AGRA Regency of Mesuji, Indonesia
22. AGRA Regency of Ogan Komeling Ilir, Indonesia
23. AGRA Regency of Sigi, Indonesia
24. Cebu Farmers Market, Philippines
25. Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera, Philippines
26. Central Visayas Farmers Development Center, Philippines
27. Community Health Education, Services, and Training in the Cordillera Region, Philippines
28. Health, Education and Services for the Less Privileged (HELP)-Panay, Inc., Philippines
29. Katipunan ng mga Samahang Magbubukid sa Timog Katagalugan, Philippines
30. Samahan ng mga Magbubukid ng Batangas, Philippines
31. Visayas Primary Healthcare Services, Inc., Philippines

Individuals

• Julie Ward, co-chairperson of Urban Economy Forum & former member of the European Parliament, UK
• Narasimha Reddy Donthi, public policy expert, India
• Hellen Yego, farmer-leader, Kenya
• Ang Cheatlom, development consultant on land and forest issues and on rights of Indigenous and local communities, Cambodia
• Juana Vera Delgado, agricultural engineer and expert on sustainable rural development and gender, Netherlands
• Biswa Mohan, independent development practitioner, India
• Ruth Kruger, independent researcher working in sustainability science and energy justice, South Africa