Competition, trade, and sustainability in agriculture and food markets in Africa

Roberts, Simon

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“…Using data from Wealth X, we have found that the richest 1% own 43% of consolidation within Africa. 38 India faces 'rising industrial concentration', especially by the top five firms. 39 Monopolies increase the power of corporations and their owners to the detriment of everyone else.…”

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Inequality Inc. How corporate power divides our world and the need for a new era of public action

Riddell,

Ahmed,

Maitland

et al. 2024

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Since 2020, the richest five men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion people globally have become poorer. Hardship and hunger are a daily reality for many people worldwide. At current rates, it will take 230 years to end poverty, but we could have our first trillionaire in 10 years. This report shows how a huge concentration of global corporate and monopoly power is exacerbating inequality economy-wide. Seven out of ten of the world’s biggest corporates have either a billionaire CEO or a billionaire as their principal shareholder. Through squeezing workers, dodging tax, privatizing the state and spurring climate breakdown, corporations are driving inequality and acting in the service of delivering ever-greater wealth to their rich owners. To end extreme inequality, governments must radically redistribute the power of billionaires and corporations back to ordinary people. A more equal world is possible if governments effectively regulate and reimagine the private sector.

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Section: The Link Between Extreme Wealth and Corporate Powermentioning

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Inequality Inc. How corporate power divides our world and the need for a new era of public action

Riddell,

Ahmed,

Maitland

et al. 2024

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“…Transforming agriculture through increasing production and productivity alone without giving due emphasis to markets would not drive maximum benefit to all participants (smallholders, processors, and other main actors) of the economy (Anshari et al ., 2019; Willer et al ., 2019). The success in the development of the agriculture sector is strongly associated with the extent to which it is linked with a sustainable market that specifically needs to economically benefit the primary producers (Zrobek et al ., 2020; Roberts, 2023). It is noted that this is always true for any commodity.…”

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Utilisation, efficiency, health, and environmental performance assessment of Ethiopian Agro‐Processors

Kassahun,

Tibebu,

Chaka

et al. 2023

Int J of Food Sci Tech

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SummaryThe manufacturing sector is vital to the blistering economic transformation of developing countries such as Ethiopia. According to Ethiopia's industrial development strategy, one of the priority sub‐sectors of the manufacturing sector is the agricultural processing industry. This study focuses on the utilisation prospects, health, and environmental performance of afro‐food processing industries. The data were collected from 71 industry‐level respondents. The data collectors used Open Data Kit (ODK) packages as a data collection mechanism. The average utilisation of the cereal processors in Ethiopia was calculated to be 50.84%, 57.39%, 72.18%, 58.44%, and 42.81% for biscuits, macaroni, maize flour, spaghetti, and wheat flour, respectively. The average efficiency was determined to be 68.27%, 73.72%, 90.49%, 83.38%, and 64.76% for biscuits, macaroni, maize flour, spaghetti, and wheat flour, respectively. It is also noted that among the edible oil processors, peanut oil has the highest average efficiency (90.49%) and utilisation (72.18%). The lowest average efficiency and utilisation were determined to be 64.76% and 42.81% respectively for sunflower oil. From a health and environmental performance perspective, it is noted that 70.83% of oil processors and 59.57% of cereals processors have quality control laboratories. Moreover, 91.48% of cereal processors and 87.5% of oil processors have solid waste disposal systems.

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New frontiers of trade and trade policy: digitalization and climate change

Jones

Adam

2023

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

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The global spread of the digital revolution and the need to manage the climate have radically altered the international trade landscape and have rendered the architecture of the World Trade Organization ill-equipped to address emerging regulatory challenges posed by cross-border flows of digital products and by carbon emissions embodied in traded goods and services. This essay reviews the set of papers published in this issue of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy that assess the regulatory challenges presented by these two ‘new frontiers’ of trade and evaluate alternative national and supranational trade and industrial policy responses.

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Competition, trade, and sustainability in agriculture and food markets in Africa

Cited by 4 publications

References 43 publications

Inequality Inc. How corporate power divides our world and the need for a new era of public action

Inequality Inc. How corporate power divides our world and the need for a new era of public action

Utilisation, efficiency, health, and environmental performance assessment of Ethiopian Agro‐Processors

New frontiers of trade and trade policy: digitalization and climate change

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