Global People’s Summit on Food Systems

The Global People’s Summit for Just, Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Food Systems (GPS) is the movement and Global South-led counter-summit to the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) and its corporate agenda. It is part of the #Hungry4Change campaign that the People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) and PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) launched in 2020, calling for urgent and long-term reforms in food and agricultural policies.

On 21 to 23 September 2021, the GPS gathered more than one thousand people’s movements and CSOs on-ground and online and adopted a People’s Declaration titled “End Corporate Monopoly Control! Fight for People’s Rights to Just, Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Food Systems!” They also vowed to carry out national, regional, sectoral, and thematic People’s Action Plans produced from the workshops, public forums, and consultations organised under the Global People’s Summit.

The three-day main event is the culmination of year-long activities to expose the neoliberal agenda in the UNFSS and advance the people’s demands for radical food systems transformation. The GPS was launched on 22 April 2021, and activities such as conferences, national summits, workshops, forums, etc., were held. These thematic, regional, sectoral, and national events served as the baseline and groundwork of the GPS and for the formulation of its People’s Declaration and Action Plans.

WATCH: People’s Declaration animated video

The GPS organizing committee members are the following: • People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) • PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) • Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) • Arab Group for the Protection of Nature (APN) • Arab Network for Food Sovereignty (ANFS) • Eastern and Southern Africa Small-scale Farmers Forum (ESAFF) • Indigenous Peoples’ Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL) • Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) • Asian Rural Women’s Coalition (ARWC) • Global Forest Coalition (GFC) • People Over Profit (POP) • Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN) • IBON International • Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law, and Development (APWLD) • Stop Golden Rice Network (SGRN) • PAN North America (PANNA) • A Growing Culture • Youth for Food Sovereignty (YFS) • Local Futures • International League of Peoples’ Struggles (ILPS) • International Women’s Alliance (IWA) • International Migrants Alliance (IMA)