Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance
Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance
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Abstract
In today’s globally integrated food system, events in one part of the world can have multiple and wide-ranging effects, as has been shown by the recent and rapid global rise in food prices. Transnational corporations (TNCs) have been central to the development of this global food system, dominating production, international trade, processing, distribution, and retail sectors. Moreover, these global corporations play a key role in the establishment of rules and regulations by which they themselves are governed. This book examines how TNCs exercise power over global food and agriculture governance, and what the consequences are for the sustainability of the global food system. It defines three aspects of this corporate power: instrumental power, or direct influence; structural power, or the broader influence corporations have over setting agendas and rules; and discursive, or communicative and persuasive, power. The book begins by examining the nature of corporate power in cases ranging from “green” food certification in Southeast Asia and corporate influence on US food aid policy to governance in the seed industry and international food safety standards. Chapters examine such issues as the promotion of corporate-defined “environmental sustainability” and “food security,” biotechnology firms and intellectual property rights, and consumer resistance to genetically modified organisms and other cases of contestation in agrobiology. In the final chapter, the editors raise the question of how to achieve participation, transparency and accountability in food governance.
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Front Matter
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Agrifood Corporations, Global Governance, and Sustainability: A Framework for Analysis
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I Corporate Power in International Retail and Trade Governance
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Retail Power, Private Standards, and Sustainability in the Global Food System
Doris Fuchs and others
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Certification Standards and the Governance of Green Foods in Southeast Asia
Steffanie Scott and others
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In Whose Interests? Transparency and Accountability in the Global Governance of Food: Agribusiness, the Codex Alimentarius, and the World Trade Organization
Elizabeth Smythe
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Corporate Interests in US Food Aid Policy: Global Implications of Resistance to Reform
Jennifer Clapp
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Retail Power, Private Standards, and Sustainability in the Global Food System
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II Corporations and Governance of Genetically Modified Organisms
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Feeding the World? Transnational Corporations and the Promotion of Genetically Modified Food
Marc Williams
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Corporations, Seeds, and Intellectual Property Rights Governance
Susan K. Sell
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The Troubled Birth of the “Biotech Century”: Global Corporate Power and Its Limits
Robert Falkner
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Technology, Food, Power: Governing GMOs in Argentina
Peter Newell
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Corporate Power and Global Agrifood Governance: Lessons Learned
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Feeding the World? Transnational Corporations and the Promotion of Genetically Modified Food
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End Matter
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