The author provides an overall context for this issue by discussing how
food systems are organized and governed today. Food is a fundamental
human right and a factor of connectedness and social identity, yet the requirements of capital accumulation have disconnected it from its social
and productive relations and transformed it into a commodity 'from nowhere'. Transnational agrifood corporations have consolidated their control of global supply chains with the support of neoliberal public policies
with negative impacts on the well-being both of the planet and of its inhabitants. Confronting the corporate food regime is an increasingly networked movement of small-scale producers and territorial food systems
that account for over 70% of the food consumed world-wide and have
gained space in global governance in the context of the UN Committee on
World Food Security. The article closes by reviewing the contents of the
three sections of the publication and synthesizing the insights that emerge
regarding 'where to next?'