How corporate concentration and power shape food systems and why it matters
Key information
- Date
- Time
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5:45 pm to 8:30 pm
- Venue
- SOAS University of London
- Room
- Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
- Event type
- Lecture
About this event
In this Critical Research on Industrial Livestock Systems (CRILS) Network and Department of Economics public lecture Professor Jennifer Clapp will explore how growing corporate concentration has become a dominant trend in food systems.
She will highlight the complex and longstanding drivers of concentration across different parts of food systems, as well as the types of power that concentration confers to the dominant firms, enabling them to shape markets, policy, and material conditions in food systems.
The lecture will also reflect on the kinds of policy responses required to address corporate power, and the prospects for the policy agenda in this current moment of geopolitical turmoil.
Speaker
- Professor Jennifer Clapp (University of Waterloo).
About the speaker
Professor Jennifer Clapp is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo. She is a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food). From 2019-2023, she served on the Steering Committee of the High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) of the United Nations Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and was Vice-Chair of that body from 2021-2023. Her latest book is Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why it Matters (MIT Press, 2025).
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