Stakeholders in food and health

Any person, group or organisation with an **interest in and influence on** what people eat and how healthy they are.

**Governments**, **TNCs / agribusiness**, **international organisations & NGOs**, and **individuals & communities**.

Set **laws, taxes, subsidies and food-safety rules** and run public-health campaigns — e.g. a sugar tax.

**Grow, process, price and advertise** food worldwide, shaping diets for profit (e.g. Nestle, supermarkets, fast food).

The **WFP** and **FAO** (UN bodies) and charities like **Oxfam** and **ActionAid**; the **WHO** for disease.

**Global:** the WHO issuing worldwide sugar guidance. **Local:** a government sugar tax or a town's food bank.

It can cause **dependency** (farmers lose the incentive to grow food) and **depress local prices**, harming food security long-term.

Recurrent drought-famine where the **WFP** and NGOs give aid, but weak governance and aid dependency can deepen the crisis.

It shows stakeholders are **double-edged** — NGOs/WHO saved lives, yet the outbreak was linked to poor sanitation around an aid base.

1960s government + agribusiness push of **high-yield seeds, fertiliser and irrigation** — big yield gains but widened inequality and harmed soils.

The same stakeholder can **help and harm** — aid saves lives but causes dependency; agribusiness feeds millions but widens inequality.

Two+ **developed stakeholders** with **named examples**, a **weighing** of relative power/limits, and a clear **justified judgement**.