Food should nourish people, not fuel speculation. Yet today, global finance has turned food into a commodity for profit, driving hunger, inequality, and ecological collapse. Speculation on crops and land grabs are pushing millions into food insecurity while a handful of corporations and banks reap record profits.
The policy briefing "Feeding Profits, Starving People: How Food Financialization is Eating the Planet" confronts a harsh truth: the commodification and corporatization of food have reached such extremes that we seem to have forgotten a simple fact—there is no life without food.
The Society for International Development (SID) joins impactful coalition of diverse actors in Sri Lanka for the 3rd Nyeleni Forum - which began on September 6 and ends on 13, 2025, to discuss and propose solutions and priorities for the next twenty- five (25) years of the collective struggle for food sovereignty.
