Improving antitrust instruments for food security

Abstract

The study aims to substantiate the fact that the development of agro-industrial complex imposes new requirements for the formation of anti-monopoly regulation tools. The authors point out the threat of cartelization of the industry to food security. It is shown that the cartel violations are systemic in the markets of agroindustrial complex. New features typical of cartel behavior of companies have been identified. It was found that the emergence of new software algorithms greatly facilitates collusion on the market, opens up the possibility of changing the nature of competition, which imposes new requirements for the formation of antitrust regulation tools. It has been marked that it is difficult to suppress anticompetitive practices to develop a complex of measures in order to counteract the cartels: modern technologies of data analysis, application of mathematical modeling methods, economic analysis and also prohibition for development and distribution of price algorithms, their use for establishing of price control.

Egg and Broiler Supply in Malaysia: Issues, Challenges and Recommendations

“…The industrialisation of poultry production takes on many risks, from the potential wipeout of flocks from diseases to absorbing potential price hikes from the external market. Creating antimonopoly regulation tools (Anisimova et al, 2021) and supporting the growth of smaller farmers requires developing a long-term support system to democratise the poultry industry. With subsidies for broiler breeders and egg, producers extended until the end of 2022 (Bernama, 2022), a negative impact on commercial farmers is not expected, and production is presumed to maintain a subtle growth.…”