Business Power in Agriculture Value Chains - 9783032065889

Business Power in Agriculture Value ChainsArgentina During the Commodity Boom\nAuthor(s): Juan O'Farrell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783032065889, 978-3032065889\nSynopsis\nThis book examines how multinational agribusiness companies shape the regulation of agricultural value chains in Latin America. Focusing on Argentinaone of the worlds largest agricultural exportersit analyzes distributive conflicts across three policy arenas: seed intellectual property rights, foreign trade policy, and environmental regulation.\n\nThe book argues that trading and input MNCs exercise structural power that constrains governments policy options and channels rents toward foreign rather than domestic actors. Departing from conventional accounts that emphasize the threat of disinvestment or exit, it shows that agribusiness power rests instead on control over access to technology and international marketsresources that .