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- Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law
- Global Competition Law and Economics Policy
- Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Authors
- 1 Global Food Value Chains
- 2 Rents, Power and Governance in Global Value Chains
- 3 The Financialization of Land and Agriculture
- 4 Agriculture, End to End
- 5 New Forms of Financing the Agricultural Sector in Brazil
- 6 Economic Concentration and the Food Value Chain
- 7 The State of American Competition Law with Respect to the Food Chain
- 8 The Brazilian Food Value Chain and Competition Policy
- 9 Competition Concerns in Fertilizer Import-Dependent Countries like India and China
- 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
- 13 Efficiency and Fairness
- 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
- 17 Food Chain Certification and the Social Pluralism of Competition Law
- 18 Hunger Games
- 19 Agribiotech Patents in the Food Supply Chain
- 20 Mergers and Product Innovation
- 21 The Global Grain Trade
- Index
18 - Hunger Games
Connecting the Right to Food and Competition Law
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 May 2022
- Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law
- Global Competition Law and Economics Policy
- Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Authors
- 1 Global Food Value Chains
- 2 Rents, Power and Governance in Global Value Chains
- 3 The Financialization of Land and Agriculture
- 4 Agriculture, End to End
- 5 New Forms of Financing the Agricultural Sector in Brazil
- 6 Economic Concentration and the Food Value Chain
- 7 The State of American Competition Law with Respect to the Food Chain
- 8 The Brazilian Food Value Chain and Competition Policy
- 9 Competition Concerns in Fertilizer Import-Dependent Countries like India and China
- 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
- 13 Efficiency and Fairness
- 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
- 17 Food Chain Certification and the Social Pluralism of Competition Law
- 18 Hunger Games
- 19 Agribiotech Patents in the Food Supply Chain
- 20 Mergers and Product Innovation
- 21 The Global Grain Trade
- Index
Summary
Chapter 18 provides a human rights’ narrative in envisioning the implementation of competition law in the food value chain. The authors argue that competition law, with its inherent focus on market regulation and providing a level playing field to market players, offers a credible conceptual and institutional response for addressing this challenge along transparent, predictable and sustainable lines. They argue that not only does the implementation of the right to food stand to benefit from a market-centred approach but also that competition itself becomes a more “holistic” and meaningful tool for social reform by taking into account values inherent in the progress towards the global right to food by integrating the multi-dimensional reality of the global food supply and retail chain in the assessment of specific commercial practices and/or sectors. The Chapter provides the “grammar” of a more holistic competition policy in this crucial sector for national and global economies and attempts to dissect the actual and potential impact of the right to food rhetoric on competition law enforcement.
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- Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law , pp. 420 - 477Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022