Food Barons 2022 Profiting from Crisis, Digitalization, and New Corporate Power

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Abstract

The report “Food Barons 2022” by ETC Group is reviewed, aiming to understand the relationship between justice and climate change and how extractive agriculture disproportionately impacts marginalized, vulnerable populations and Indigenous communities. The report provides valuable insights for food sovereignty movements and their allies in the battles to come. It contextualizes food insecurity within the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to an increase in hunger affecting approximately 12% of the population, alongside the intensification of climate change. At the end of the pandemic, food prices rose, along with the profits of food-producing and agro-industrial companies—a process referred to as corporate greed. In this context, there is an effort to obscure the fact that three billion Indigenous and peasant producers worldwide—rural and urban, fishers and pastoralists—feed the majority of the population while also creating and conserving most of the planet's biodiversity, making them the best defense against climate change (p. 9).