The Role Of Market Concentration In The Agrifood Industry

Author : Hernandez, Manuel A.,Espinoza, Alvaro,Berrospi, Maria Lucia,Deconinck, Koen,Swinnen, Johan,Vos, Rob
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The role of market concentration in the agrifood industry by Hernandez, Manuel A.,Espinoza, Alvaro,Berrospi, Maria Lucia,Deconinck, Koen,Swinnen, Johan,Vos, Rob Pdf

The role of market concentration and potential market power exertion in the agri-food industry is a topic of longstanding interest and concern to policymakers, stakeholders, and researchers. This study provides a comprehensive overview of recent trends in market concentration upstream, midstream, and downstream the agri-food industry at the global, regional, and country level, and assesses how and to what extent concentration could be affecting market conduct and performance of food systems in developed and developing countries. The analysis additionally discusses, to the extent detectable, implications of concentration, including vertical and horizontal integration that favor concentration, for food security and nutrition and environmental sustainability. While market concentration in the agri-food industry has increased across most segments, the evidence on market power exertion is inconclusive. Several knowledge and data gaps are identified and additional research is necessary to derive more general conclusions and policy recommendations.

Author : Manuel A. Hernandez,Alvaro Espinoza,Maria Lucia Berrospi,Koen Deconinck,Johan F. M. Swinnen,Rob Vos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1386291466

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The Role of Market Concentration in the Agrifood Industry by Manuel A. Hernandez,Alvaro Espinoza,Maria Lucia Berrospi,Koen Deconinck,Johan F. M. Swinnen,Rob Vos Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264308367

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Concentration in Seed Markets Potential Effects and Policy Responses by OECD Pdf

Recent mergers in the seed industry have led to concerns about market concentration and its potential effects on prices, product choice, and innovation. This study provides new and detailed empirical evidence on the degree of market concentration in seed and GM technology across a broad range ...

Author : Kostas Karantininis,Jerker Nilsson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781402055430

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Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies by Kostas Karantininis,Jerker Nilsson Pdf

This book collects sixteen essays that provide clarification to issues pertinent to contemporary cooperatives. Twenty three internationally recognized scholars of agricultural cooperatives from a variety of disciplines such as industrial organization, finance, sociology, networks, and political theory contributed theoretical work and empirical observations from different countries.

Author : Harvey S. James, Jr.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400762749

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The Ethics and Economics of Agrifood Competition by Harvey S. James, Jr. Pdf

This edited volume presents ethical and economic analyses of agrifood competition. By systematically examining fairness and openness in agricultural markets, it seeks to answer the question of whether there is adequate competition in the agrifood industry and whether the system is fair to all participants. It outlines ethical and economic principles important for understanding agrifood competition, presents arguments for and against consolidation, globalization and the integration of agrifood industries, and looks at the implications of globalization on the nature of competition in specific agricultural contexts.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789251383551

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Hidden costs of agrifood systems and recent trends from 2016 to 2023 by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

This background paper to The State of Food and Agriculture 2023 examines the annual hidden costs of agrifood systems across 2016–2023 for 154 countries. Hidden costs include environmental hidden costs from greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen emissions, land-use transitions, and blue water withdrawals; social hidden costs associated with undernourishment and poverty; and health hidden costs from unhealthy dietary patterns. The expected value of hidden costs is around 13 trillion 2020 purchasing power parity (PPP) dollars. This is equivalent to approximately 10 percent of global gross domestic product (GDP) PPP in 2023 and around 35 billion 2020 PPP dollars per day. Environmental hidden costs averaged around 3 trillion 2020 PPP dollars over the 2016–2023 period; health-related costs averaged 9.3 trillion 2020 PPP dollars; and social hidden costs averaged 560 billion 2020 PPP dollars. Health hidden costs are the largest across all world regions, apart from sub-Saharan Africa, where costs from poverty and undernourishment prevail. Hidden costs also report an upward trend from 2016 to 2023, driven primarily by health hidden costs.Overall, hidden costs place a disproportionate burden on low-income countries.Left unchecked, these hidden costs will depress future growth and development. However, these hidden costs do not reflect the GDP PPP loss that may be avoided by transitioning to more sustainable agrifood systems. In other words, while these may be avoidable, the quantified hidden costs do not indicate the costs of transitioning to alternative systems. Subsequent studies are needed to quantify these.

Author : Michael T. Roberts
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781800374676

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Research Handbook on International Food Law by Michael T. Roberts Pdf

With contributions from over 30 international legal scholars, this topical Research Handbook on International Food Law provides a crucial and reflective examination of the rules, power dynamics, legal doctrines, societal norms, and frameworks that govern the modern global food system. The Research Handbook analyses the interlinkages between producers and consumers of food, as well as the environmental effects of the global food network and the repercussions on human health.

Author : N. Chandrasekhara Rao,R. Radhakrishna,Ram Kumar Mishra,Venkata Reddy Kata
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788132224761

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Organised Retailing and Agri-Business by N. Chandrasekhara Rao,R. Radhakrishna,Ram Kumar Mishra,Venkata Reddy Kata Pdf

This book examines the performance of organized retail chains supplying the agri-input and output services in terms of achieving their objective of utilising collective bargaining power in the marketing of their agricultural produce, integrating empirical experience from India and other selected developing countries. The scenario of marketing for agricultural products has been undergoing rapid changes with the rise of organised retailing (the Indian term for ‘supermarkets’), a process that is likely to accelerate in years to come, with India being on the threshold of a supermarket revolution. In fact, India is referred to as the ‘final frontier’ in the development of supermarkets. The growth of supermarkets in India is faster than that in China, which is also witnessing an exponential growth as part of the “third wave” of supermarket diffusion. The book investigates the links between organised retailing and farmers and farming in India. Apart from raising issues of equity, inclusion and problems in policy framework, it also discusses policy interventions that are essential in order to make the development of organised retailing more inclusive and beneficial to the farming community and agricultural sector. The book further serves as a guide for policy makers, helping them to select the right kind of interventions to balance growth with equity as market forces penetrate deeper into the agricultural marketing space.

Author : William D. Schanbacher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216090359

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The Global Food System by William D. Schanbacher Pdf

This detailed analysis of the global food system looks at the way food is produced, distributed, and consumed in an effort to create a more equitable and healthful system worldwide. With large-scale famine afflicting regions around the globe and overconsumption and unhealthy eating habits destroying others, many are beginning to wonder if access to food is less of a class-based social problem and more of an ethical issue affecting the lives—and livelihoods—of people all over the world. This thoughtful text provides a thorough examination of the factors contributing to this global concern, exploring the complexities of international food supply and demand as well as the efforts to bring about a more just global food system. Through this groundbreaking volume, author and educator Will Schanbacher sheds light on flaws in the current structure and suggests ways to achieve a more balanced approach. He considers the economics, politics, and activism behind and involved in the production, distribution, and consumption of the global food system. In an effort to illuminate many problems associated with hunger, inequality, and injustice in the food system, the book also offers many potential strategies and solutions for making a more healthy, sustainable, and equitable world. Chapters contain both theoretical models and concrete practices for food security and offer strategies for creating an equitable system.

Author : Vijay Paul Sharma,Bill Vorley,Jikun Huang,Abid Qaiyum Suleri,Larry Digal,Thomas A. Reardon
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788184248241

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Linking Smallholder Producers to Modern Agri-Food Chains: Case Studies from South Asia, Southeast Asia and China by Vijay Paul Sharma,Bill Vorley,Jikun Huang,Abid Qaiyum Suleri,Larry Digal,Thomas A. Reardon Pdf

This publication examines the processes and impact of market restructuring through comparative in-depth empirical case studies in selected Asian countries, namely, China,India, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. These countries represent both a broad geographic coverage and a range of stages of market concentration in the region. The country papers address important questions such as what determines the participation of producers in different channels, what is the impact of farmer participation on incomes and what institutional, technological, economic and other reforms are necessary to enhance their effective participation in the emerging and restructuring markets.The case studies attempt to identify major factors that affect smallholder producers’ access to output markets, input markets, e.g. seeds, fertilizers, agrochemicals, technology and services such as credit, extension, insurance. Each case study has tried to analyse one specific innovation and these innovations are specific arrangements built on public policies, business initiatives, collective/group action by small-scale producers, etc. that appear to have played a positive role in supporting greater inclusion. The studies aim to derive models, strategies and policy principles to guide public and private sector players in promoting greater participation of small-scale producers in dynamic markets.

Author : Charis M. Galanakis
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780323915526

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Innovation Strategies in the Food Industry by Charis M. Galanakis Pdf

Innovation Strategies for the Food Industry: Tools for Implementation, Second Edition explores how process technologies and innovations are implemented in the food industry, by i.e., detecting problems and providing answers to questions of modern applications. As in all science sectors, Internet and big data have brought a renaissance of changes in the way academics and researchers communicate and collaborate, and in the way that the food industry develops. The new edition covers emerging skills of food technologists and the integration of food science and technology knowledge into the food chain. This handbook is ideal for all relevant actors in the food sector (professors, researchers, students and professionals) as well as for anyone dealing with food science and technology, new products development and food industry. Includes the latest trend on training requirements for the agro-food industry Highlights new technical skills and profiles of modern food scientists and technologists for professional development Presents new case studies to support research activities in the food sector, including product and process innovation Covers topics on collaboration, entrepreneurship, Big Data and the Internet of Things

Author : Philip H. Howard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472581143

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Concentration and Power in the Food System by Philip H. Howard Pdf

Nearly every day brings news of another merger or acquisition involving the companies that control our food supply. Just how concentrated has this system become? At almost every key stage of the food system, four firms alone control 40% or more of the market, a level above which these companies have the power to drive up prices for consumers and reduce their rate of innovation. Researchers have identified additional problems resulting from these trends, including negative impacts on the environment, human health, and communities. This book reveals the dominant corporations, from the supermarket to the seed industry, and the extent of their control over markets. It also analyzes the strategies these firms are using to reshape society in order to further increase their power, particularly in terms of their bearing upon the more vulnerable sections of society, such as recent immigrants, ethnic minorities and those of lower socioeconomic status. Yet this study also shows that these trends are not inevitable. Opposed by numerous efforts, from microbreweries to seed saving networks, it explores how such opposition has encouraged the most powerful firms to make small but positive changes.

Author : Quentin Farmar-Bowers,Vaughan Higgins,Joanne Millar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461444848

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Food Security in Australia by Quentin Farmar-Bowers,Vaughan Higgins,Joanne Millar Pdf

This book considers the ability and capacity of the food supply system in Australia to provide food security for the ever-increasing domestic and international population in the face of growing challenges in production, resource supply and failures within the food system itself. Although Australia is a net food exporting country, domestic food insecurity exists and will increase as food prices rise in the coming decades. An overview of the food supply system highlights the main challenges that are determining the future. Many of these challenges can be resolved by the Australian government, but others are in the hands of global governance to which Australia can only adapt. This book sheds light on the challenges and discusses the prospects for developing more sustainable and resilient future food systems in Australia. In addition, it covers food security and sovereignty issues under the heading of “food equity and access,” “food production, policy and trade,” and “impacts of land use planning on agriculture.” The unique features of the book include the following: • Most literature on food security pertains to developing countries. By way of contrast, this book explores food security in a developed nation (Australia) that seemingly should not have food security issues. The topics covered in the book are relevant to other developed nations with growing populations and resource management challenges. • The book chapters are written by specialists to paint a comprehensive picture of the political, social, economic and environmental issues that give rise to food insecurity, and the challenges these issues present to the security of the food system in coming decades. The overall organization of the book uses a theoretically informed and multi-disciplinary approach. This enables a critical and in-depth analysis of food security by outlining the key challenges as well as prospects for the development of more sustainable and resilient agri-food systems. • The three principal topics in the book are dealt with by a multi-disciplinary team of authors in a way that teases out diverse points of view illustrating the complexity of food security. Author disciplines include health and nutrition, agriculture, ethics, social science, law, and practitioners managing food aid programs. • The book shows how food security relates to many technical, social and moral issues in society and how it is possible to develop successful programs to improve food security.

Author : Noel Castree,Mike Hulme,James D. Proctor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1031 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317275879

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Companion to Environmental Studies by Noel Castree,Mike Hulme,James D. Proctor Pdf

Companion to Environmental Studies presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the key issues, debates, concepts, approaches and questions that together define environmental studies today. The intellectually wide-ranging volume covers approaches in environmental science all the way through to humanistic and post-natural perspectives on the biophysical world. Though many academic disciplines have incorporated studying the environment as part of their curriculum, only in recent years has it become central to the social sciences and humanities rather than mainly the geosciences. ‘The environment’ is now a keyword in everything from fisheries science to international relations to philosophical ethics to cultural studies. The Companion brings these subject areas, and their distinctive perspectives and contributions, together in one accessible volume. Over 150 short chapters written by leading international experts provide concise, authoritative and easy-to-use summaries of all the major and emerging topics dominating the field, while the seven part introductions situate and provide context for section entries. A gateway to deeper understanding is provided via further reading and links to online resources. Companion to Environmental Studies offers an essential one-stop reference to university students, academics, policy makers and others keenly interested in ‘the environmental question’, the answer to which will define the coming century.

Author : Raffaele Torino,Anna Maria Mancaleoni
Publisher : Roma TrE-Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9791259772312

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Agrifood market regulation and contractual relationships in the light of directive (eu) 633/2019 by Raffaele Torino,Anna Maria Mancaleoni Pdf

Il volume collettaneo analizza le tematiche connesse alla disciplina dei rapporti tra i diversi attori della filiera agroalimentare alla luce della Direttiva UE 2019/633 “in materia di pratiche commerciali sleali nei rapporti tra imprese nella filiera agricola e alimentare” e della sua attuazione negli Stati membri, nell’ottica della più ampia problematica della disciplina del mercato agroalimentare. In tale prospettiva, nella prima parte del volume la disciplina dei rapporti contrattuali della filiera agroalimentare viene inquadrata nell’ambito della PAC e della disciplina della concorrenza, evidenziandosi altresì le connessioni con altri profili di rilievo; nella seconda parte, l’analisi si concentra sull’attuazione della Direttiva UE 2019/633 nei diversi Stati membri, al fine di evidenziare i punti di forza e le debolezze del mutato quadro normativo europeo. DOI: 10.13134/979-12-5977-231-2