The article, written by Nicoletta Dentico, SID Director of the Health Justice Programme, exposes hunger stripped of euphemisms and humanitarian clichés, but as a brutal weapon of war and control, from Gaza to Sudan, demanding we confront its political roots.

The Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSIPM) of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will not participate in the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit +4 (UNFSS+4), at the end of July 2025, or its preparatory processes. This decision reflects a collective assessment that no meaningful changes have been made to the Summit’s direction, governance and safeguards against corporate influence since 2021. 

April 16th 2025 - Faced with a global financial system that undermines the right to food and food sovereignty, civil society and Indigenous Peoples’ organisations called on governments to strengthen public policies and financing that favour local food production, to guarantee transparency and effective accountability mechanisms, and to ensure the active participation of small-scale producers in the design, monitoring and evaluation of these policies.

On World Food Day, over 100 civil society and Indigenous Peoples’ organisations from across the globe have come together to release the Peoples’ Manifesto on the Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition. The Manifesto calls for urgent political action to end the use of starvation as a weapon of war, address food insecurity, combat inequality, and transform global food systems.

On January 30th 2024, the Society for International Development (SID) organized a workshop in Geneva titled “The Surging Pandemic of Health and Food financialization”  with the aim to shed lights on the growing and unregulated trends of financialization in these two separate but interconnected arenas.