Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law by Lianos, Ioannis; Ivanov, Alexey; Davis, Dennis;

Series: Global Competition Law and Economics Policy;

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Publisher Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication 5 May 2022

ISBN 9781108429498
Binding Hardback
No. of pages660 pages
Size 235x158x40 mm
Weight 1080 g
Language English

Short description:

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

Long description:

The food industry is a notoriously complex economic sector that has not received the attention it deserves within legal scholarship. Production and distribution of food is complex because of its polycentric character (as it operates at the intersection of different public policies) and its dynamic evolution and transformation in the last few decades (from technological and governance perspectives). This volume introduces the global value chain approach as a useful way to analyse competition law and applies it to the operations of food chains and the challenges of their regulation. Together, the chapters not only provide a comprehensive mapping of a vast comparative field, but also shed light on the intricacies of the various policies and legal fields in operation. The book offers a conceptual and theoretical framework for competition authorities, companies and academics, and fills a massive gap in the competition policy literature dealing with global value chains and food.

'This book is an invaluable contribution to the analysis of politically important, complex and often ignored competition issues related to the global food value chain. It discusses the intellectual property regime of fertilizers and seeds, the imbalance in negotiating power along the chain that have exploitative and exclusionary effects, the horizontal concentration reinforced by mergers and the role of international trade and cartels in a number of agricultural inputs, as well as the abuses of buying power by large scale retailers. It analyzes why competition law enforcement has largely failed to deal with those issues and provides a powerful and thought provoking invitation to rethink both the goals and the instruments we use. In short, it is a must read.' Frederic Jenny, President, OECD Competition Committee

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.