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Price Effects of Common Ownership in the Seed Sector
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We investigate the effects of common ownership on firms’ incentives to compete. Using a theoretical model, we illustrate how common ownership changes the nature of competition among firms in the same sector. Our empirical analysis exami...
Publication · February 21, 2026
Material and visceral engagements with household food waste: Towards opportunities for policy interventions
Publication · February 21, 2026
Criteria for effective zero-deforestation commitments
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Abstract Zero-deforestation commitments are a type of voluntary sustainability initiative that companies adopt to signal their intention to reduce or eliminate deforestation associated with commodities that they produce, trade, and/or s...
Publication · February 21, 2026
The rise of financial investment and common ownership in global agrifood firms
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Abstract Financial investment in the food and agriculture sector has grown in recent decades, including investment in equity-related funds that invest in or track the performance of a range of publicly traded transnational agrifood comp...
Publication · February 21, 2026
Contextualizing corporate control in the agrifood and extractive sectors
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ABSTRACT Corporations have gained enormous power and influence in recent decades as mergers and acquisitions in just about every sector of the global economy have given rise to mega-sized companies that influence almost every aspect of ...
Publication · February 21, 2026
Precision Technologies for Agriculture: Digital Farming, Gene-Edited Crops, and the Politics of Sustainability
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This article analyzes the rise of precision technologies for agriculture—specifically digital farming and plant genome editing—and their implications for the politics of environmental sustainability in the agrifood sector. We map out op...
Publication · February 21, 2026
This food crisis is different: COVID-19 and the fragility of the neoliberal food security order
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ABSTRACT Our analysis situates the current COVID-19 induced food crisis within a longer-term historical perspective on policy responses to past food crises. We argue that the legacies left by these past policies created vulnerabilities ...
Publication · February 21, 2026
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