Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters
暫譯: 工業農業的巨頭：少數大型企業如何主導農業部門及其重要性
Clapp, Jennifer
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商品描述
How a small handful of giant transnational corporations has come to dominate the farm inputs sector, why it matters, and what can be done about it. Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of farm machinery, fertilizer, seeds, and pesticides are sold to farmers around the world. Although agricultural inputs are a huge sector of the global economy, the lion's share of that market is controlled by a relatively small number of very large transnational corporations. The high degree of concentration among these agribusiness titans is striking, considering that just a few hundred years ago agricultural inputs were not even marketed goods. In Titans of Industrial Agriculture, Jennifer Clapp explains how we got from there to here, outlining the forces that enabled this extreme concentration of power and the entrenchment of industrial agriculture.
Clapp reveals that the firms that rose to the top of these sectors benefited from distinct market, technology, and policy advantages dating back a century or more that enabled them to expand their businesses through mergers and acquisitions that made them even bigger and more powerful. These dynamics matter because the firms at the top have long shaped industrial farming practices that, in turn, have generated enormous social, ecological, and health impacts on the planet and the future of food systems. Beyond analyzing how these problems have arisen and manifested, the book examines recent efforts to address corporate power and dominance in food systems and assesses the prospects for change. Among the first works to examine deep roots of corporate power in agriculture, Titans of Industrial Agriculture helps illuminate just how corporate actors have encouraged the "lock-in" of industrial agriculture, despite all its known social and ecological costs.
Clapp reveals that the firms that rose to the top of these sectors benefited from distinct market, technology, and policy advantages dating back a century or more that enabled them to expand their businesses through mergers and acquisitions that made them even bigger and more powerful. These dynamics matter because the firms at the top have long shaped industrial farming practices that, in turn, have generated enormous social, ecological, and health impacts on the planet and the future of food systems. Beyond analyzing how these problems have arisen and manifested, the book examines recent efforts to address corporate power and dominance in food systems and assesses the prospects for change. Among the first works to examine deep roots of corporate power in agriculture, Titans of Industrial Agriculture helps illuminate just how corporate actors have encouraged the "lock-in" of industrial agriculture, despite all its known social and ecological costs.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
少數幾家大型跨國公司如何主導農業投入品市場、這為何重要以及可以採取什麼措施。
每年，全球農民購買的農業機械、肥料、種子和農藥的銷售額達數千億美元。儘管農業投入品是全球經濟中的一個巨大領域，但該市場的主要份額卻由相對少數幾家非常大的跨國公司所控制。考慮到僅僅幾百年前農業投入品甚至還不是商品，這些農業企業巨頭之間的高度集中程度令人驚訝。在Titans of Industrial Agriculture中，Jennifer Clapp 解釋了我們是如何從那裡走到這裡的，概述了促成這種極端權力集中和工業農業鞏固的力量。Clapp 揭示了那些在這些領域中崛起的公司受益於一個世紀或更早的獨特市場、技術和政策優勢，使它們能夠通過合併和收購擴大業務，變得更大更強。這些動態之所以重要，是因為位於頂端的公司長期以來塑造了工業農業的實踐，這反過來又對地球和未來的食品系統產生了巨大的社會、生態和健康影響。除了分析這些問題是如何產生和表現出來的，這本書還檢視了最近針對食品系統中企業權力和主導地位的應對努力，並評估了變革的前景。作為首批研究農業中企業權力深層根源的著作之一，Titans of Industrial Agriculture 有助於揭示企業行為者如何促進工業農業的「鎖定」，儘管其已知的社會和生態成本。
作者簡介
Jennifer Clapp is Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability and Professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo. Her recent books include Food, 3rd edition, Speculative Harvests, and Hunger in the Balance. She is a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems and previously served as Vice Chair of the Steering Committee of the High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS).
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
詹妮弗·克拉普（Jennifer Clapp）是加拿大全球食品安全與可持續性研究主席，並且是滑鐵盧大學環境、資源與可持續性學院的教授。她最近出版的書籍包括《食品》（Food）第三版、《投機性收成》（Speculative Harvests）和《平衡中的飢餓》（Hunger in the Balance）。她是國際可持續食品系統專家小組的成員，並曾擔任聯合國世界糧食安全委員會（CFS）高級專家小組（HLPE-FSN）指導委員會的副主席。
