The Shahidi Project (a Kiswahili word meaning witness) intends to demystify the power structures and capacities of transnational food and agricultural corporations within our food system. To accomplish this, we have developed a robust database focusing on ten of the largest food and agricultural corporations in the world.

The interactive database provides multi-layered data on each corporation featured with information about the corporation’s scale of operations around the globe, its lobbying influence in legislatures and academia, its monopoly over many products consumed in the food and agricultural systems, and more. To enact real, transformational change, and to increase corporate transparency and accountability in the current structural crisis of the food system, first, we must bear witness on the scale of the challenges we face.

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Corporate Mergers

Corporate mergers undermine food security, disrupt trade flows, and accelerate monopoly within the global food system whereby a few corporations benefit to the detriment of consumers and small farmers.

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U.S. Agricultural Policy

Agricultural policy is intended to steer food-related strategies to eliminate poverty and reduce hunger, however, current policies are misaligned with societal and public needs, and increasingly benefit corporate interests.

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Trade & Development

The international free trade agreements promise shared prosperity for all members of society, yet, these agreements are producing negative repercussions on the environment, income equity, and society at large.

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