{"id":2431,"date":"2021-09-21T15:05:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T18:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/btta.cc\/?page_id=2431"},"modified":"2021-10-12T13:01:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T16:01:18","slug":"plate-power","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gnrtfn.org\/watch13\/watch13\/plate-power\/","title":{"rendered":"The plate of consolidated corporate power"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”none” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” bg_color=”#d0c4dc” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”8%” bottom_padding=”4%” text_color=”custom” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” enable_shape_divider=”true” shape_divider_color=”#ffffff” shape_divider_position=”bottom” shape_divider_height=”33%” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”straight_section”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”top-bottom” column_element_spacing=”0px” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”radial” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” bottom_padding=”35″ left_padding_desktop=”6%” constrain_group_2=”yes” right_padding_desktop=”6%” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”0px” centered_text=”true” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][split_line_heading animation_type=”line-reveal-by-space” font_style=”h1″ stagger_animation=”true” content_alignment=”default” mobile_content_alignment=”inherit” text_content=”The plate of consolidated corporate power” font_size=”7vh”][\/split_line_heading][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”0px” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” enable_animation=”true” animation=”fade-in-from-bottom” parallax_bg=”true” parallax_bg_speed=”fast” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][nectar_image_with_hotspots image=”2945″ preview=”https:\/\/gnrtfn.org\/watch13\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Plate-5.jpg” color_1=”Accent-Color” hotspot_icon=”plus_sign” tooltip=”click” tooltip_shadow=”small_depth” animation=”true”][nectar_hotspot left=”26.275787187839306%” top=”55.99892085072272%” position=”top”]Only four firms \u2014 Bayer, Corteva, ChemChina, and Limagrain \u2014 control more than 50% of the world’s commercial seeds, while the bulk of the world’s commercial grains are supplied by just four traders: Archer Daniels Midland Company, Bunge, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus Company. 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Since the 1970s, corporations have been merging their businesses and\/or acquiring new ones. For instance, in the primary food production element of the food system, bigger seed firms have bought out smaller seed companies; large chemical firms have taken over seed firms; seed and chemical giants have invested in agricultural biotechnology; pharmaceutical and chemical firms have merged and created agricultural chemical firms as their subsidiaries.<\/p>\n

Consolidation\u00a0has also taken place in other areas of the food system, such as in food processing and in markets and purchasing.\u00a0\u00a0These mergers and acquisitions have lessened the number of industry players and have eventually\u00a0concentrated power in the hands of a few but very powerful transnational corporations.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text max_width=”550″]\n

We need to ask ourselves: What has created these conditions for corporations to increase their power in the first place? And what impacts does it have?<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text max_width=”550″]\n

The expanded control of commercial seeds by just a few giant industry players, for instance, compromises the\u202frights<\/a>\u202fof peasants and other people working in rural areas to conserve, use, exchange, maintain and develop their own seeds, crops, and genetic resources, as well as their right to decide which crops to cultivate.<\/p>\n

Due to their growing size and power in food systems, corporations are increasingly seen as important counterparts for food systems transformation. Through so-called\u00a0multistakeholder\u00a0platforms or public-private partnerships, governments invite corporations to the table of policy-making to\u00a0develop solutions to the problems they are largely responsible for.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text max_width=”550″]\n

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