Book contents
- Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law
- Global Competition Law and Economics Policy
- Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Authors
- 1 Global Food Value Chains
- 2 Rents, Power and Governance in Global Value Chains
- 3 The Financialization of Land and Agriculture
- 4 Agriculture, End to End
- 5 New Forms of Financing the Agricultural Sector in Brazil
- 6 Economic Concentration and the Food Value Chain
- 7 The State of American Competition Law with Respect to the Food Chain
- 8 The Brazilian Food Value Chain and Competition Policy
- 9 Competition Concerns in Fertilizer Import-Dependent Countries like India and China
- 10 Russian Competition Policy Over Value Chains in Agricultural and Food Sectors
- 11 The Pioneer/Pannar Merger, the Maize Seed Value Chain and Globalisation
- 12 Power in the Food Value Chain
- 13 Efficiency and Fairness
- 14 China’s Legal Regulation of the Abuse of Market Power by Large Retailers
- 15 Superior Bargaining Power in Russian Contract and Competition Law
- 16 Regulating Unfair Trading Practices in the EU Food Supply Chain
- 17 Food Chain Certification and the Social Pluralism of Competition Law
- 18 Hunger Games
- 19 Agribiotech Patents in the Food Supply Chain
- 20 Mergers and Product Innovation
- 21 The Global Grain Trade
- Index
4 - Agriculture, End to End
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 May 2022
- Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law
- Global Competition Law and Economics Policy
- Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Authors
- 1 Global Food Value Chains
- 2 Rents, Power and Governance in Global Value Chains
- 3 The Financialization of Land and Agriculture
- 4 Agriculture, End to End
- 5 New Forms of Financing the Agricultural Sector in Brazil
- 6 Economic Concentration and the Food Value Chain
- 7 The State of American Competition Law with Respect to the Food Chain
- 8 The Brazilian Food Value Chain and Competition Policy
- 9 Competition Concerns in Fertilizer Import-Dependent Countries like India and China
- 10 Russian Competition Policy Over Value Chains in Agricultural and Food Sectors
- 11 The Pioneer/Pannar Merger, the Maize Seed Value Chain and Globalisation
- 12 Power in the Food Value Chain
- 13 Efficiency and Fairness
- 14 China’s Legal Regulation of the Abuse of Market Power by Large Retailers
- 15 Superior Bargaining Power in Russian Contract and Competition Law
- 16 Regulating Unfair Trading Practices in the EU Food Supply Chain
- 17 Food Chain Certification and the Social Pluralism of Competition Law
- 18 Hunger Games
- 19 Agribiotech Patents in the Food Supply Chain
- 20 Mergers and Product Innovation
- 21 The Global Grain Trade
- Index
Summary
Chapter 4 integrates the economic and legal discussion in the broader technological system and its evolution that ultimately frames its direction. Agriculture consists of a process for converting energy and biological information into physical products for human consumption. The ongoing consolidation of biotechnology and agricultural analytics into a handful of massive multinational corporations clearly illustrates this definition of agriculture as a process of information flow. The architectural ideal in information science is the ‘end-to-end’ principle. All intelligence within an information platform arises from its ends; either with its originators or with ultimate consumers, or, as so often happens in an interactive age, with consumers who themselves become second-order creators of content. The corollary of the end-to-end principle, however, is that physical and logical layers, which facilitate the transmission of intelligence become ‘dumb pipe’; effectively their sole contribution to this chain consists of efficiently transporting the relevant information.
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- Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law , pp. 73 - 101Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022