SOAS Department of Economics & CRILS Public Lecture by Jennifer Clapp

Prof Clapp will discuss how corporate concentration and power shape food systems and why it matters In this CRILS 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.