Corporate Concentration
Concentration in corporate power is the defining feature of today's global economy, with profound implications for livelihoods, well-being, the environment and human rights. ETC Group has long monitored the "Gene Giants" (who aggregate control over seeds, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, genomics and food processing and retailing). Today many of the same large corporations are touting the use of new technologies - including genomics, nanotechnology and synthetic biology - to transform biomass into high-value products or to manufacture materials "from the bottom up." They are moving from being - 'gene giants' to 'biomass-ters' or even 'matter moguls.'
ETC Group on COVID, data giants, the food system and community responses
21 May 2020
Pat Mooney talks global corporate power moves
6 May 2020
Reports on Corporate Concentration
Stakeholders vs. Steak-eaters
12 Feb 2020
World Food Systems Summit is part of a three-pronged corporate food policy power grab
12 Feb 2020
Is the Industrial Food Chain Unravelling... or Rewinding?
15 Oct 2018
Mega-mergers and the concentration of power in the agri-food sector
22 Aug 2018