Conference on the Global Food Value Chain: Competition Law and Policy at Crossroads (2016 : Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Title:
Global food value chains and competition law / edited by Ioannis Lianos, Faculty of Laws, University College London, Alexey Ivanov, Skolkovo-HSE Institute for Law and Development, Dennis Davis, University of Cape Town School of Law.
Includes papers presented at a conference held in Saint Petersburg, May 18-20, 2016, and sponsored by the Centre for Law, Economics and Society of the University College London, and the Skolkovo-HSE Institute for Law and Development. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Global food value chains : a conceptual guide -- Rents, power and governance in global value chains -- The financialization of land and agriculture : mechanisms, implications and responses -- Agriculture, end to end -- New forms of financing the agricultural sector in Brazil : the experience of the soybean chain -- Economic concentration and the food value chain : legal and economic perspectives -- The state of American competition law with respect to the food chain -- The Brazilian food value chain and competition policy : an overview of CADE's role-centrality and inadequacy -- Competition concerns in fertilizer import-dependent countries like India and China : analysing the Agrium-PotashCorp merger -- Russian competition policy over value chains in agricultural and food sectors -- The Pioneer/Pannar Merger, the Maize Seed value chain and Globalisation -- Power in the food value chain : theory and metrics -- Efficiency and fairness : interdependent discourses in supermarket-supplier relations -- China's legal regulation of the abuse of market power by large retailers -- Superior bargaining power in Russian contract and competition law -- Regulating unfair trading practices in the EU food supply chain : between market making and market correcting -- Food chain certification and the social pluralism of Competition Law -- Hunger games : connecting the right to food and Competition Law -- Agribiotech patents in the food supply chain : a US perspective -- Mergers and product innovation : seeds and GM crops -- The global grain trade : from a ferrymen oligopoly to the sustainable bridge solution.
Summary:
"The book deals with global food value chains and different technological challenges and new economic realities connected to it. It delves into the issue of the consolidation of the food supply chain and the challenges it presents for competition law and policy. The issue of power in the food value chain is also considered as well as the intersection of competition law in the food industry with a number of international and transnational legal regimes, in particular, trade law, human rights law and international standard setting. The book deals with the considerable role of intellectual property ('IP') rights and innovation in the development of the industry and the strategies followed by the main actors, in particular, in the upstream factors of production market to build competitive advantage and protect their technology. It covers a wide range of jurisdictions like United States of America, European Union, and BRICS countries"-- Provided by publisher.
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