Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law

ISBN-13: 9781108429498 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Ioannis Lianos; Alexey Ivanov; Dennis Davis

Opis

A comprehensive overview of the law required to regulate global food value chains and make them more accountable to society.

Recenzje

'To stress the importance of this collective book, I would like to use the words of President John F. Kennedy who, in his Remarks at the Opening Session of the World Food Congress (June 4, 1963), paraphrased the idea of another President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, who '… at the launching of the first World Food Congress, declared that freedom from want and freedom from fear go hand in hand, and that is true today'. The relevance of food and its value chains, not merely at a national level but at a global one, is in the public eyes and this relevance is increasing year by year. Therefore, it is thanks to practical and technical works, such as Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law, that we can clearly understand the actual and future trends of a sector that have the utmost importance on the life of each single living being.' Ettore Maria Lombardi, Professor of Private Law, University of Florence

Spis treści

1. Global food value chains: A conceptual guide; 2. Rents, power and governance in global value chains; 3. The financialization of land and agriculture: Mechanisms, implications and responses; 4. Agriculture, End to End; 5. New forms of financing the agricultural sector in Brazil: The experience of the soybean Chain; 6. Economic concentration and the food value chain: Legal and economic perspectives; 7. The state of American competition law with respect to the food chain; 8. The Brazilian food value chain and competition policy: An overview of CADE's role – Centrality and inadequacy; 9. Competition concerns in fertilizer import-dependent countries like India and China: Analysing the agrium-potashcorp merger; 10. Russian competition policy over value chains in agricultural and food sectors; 11. The Pioneer/Pannar merger, The maize seed value chain and globalisation; 12. Power in the food value chain: Theory & metrics; 13. Efficiency and fairness: Interdependent discourses in supermarket-supplier relations; 14. China's legal regulation of the abuse of market power by large retailers; 15. Superior bargaining power in Russian contract and competition law; 16. Regulating unfair trading practices in the EU food supply chain: Between market making and market correcting; 17. Food chain certification and the social pluralism of competition law; 18. Hunger games: Connecting the right to food and competition law; 19. Agribiotech patents in the food supply chain: A U.S. perspective; 20. Mergers and product innovation: Seeds and GM crops; 21. The global grain trade: From a ferrymen oligopoly to the sustainable bridge solution.