Please join us at SOAS, University of London for an evening to explore how growing corporate concentration has become a dominant trend in food systems. Hosted by the Department of Economics and the Critical Research on Industrial Livestock Systems (CRILS) Network, Professor Jennifer Clapp will highlight the complex and longstanding drivers of concentration across different parts of food systems, as well as the types of power that this trend confers to the dominant firms, enabling them to shape markets, policy, and material conditions in food systems. The talk 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.

Joining us from the University of Waterloo in Canada, Jennifer Clapp is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability. She is a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food). From 2019-2023, she served on the Steering Committee of the High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) of the United Nations Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and was Vice-Chair of that body from 2021-2023.

The talk includes a Q&A session and will be followed by a reception. Please join us and share the news with anyone in your network who may be interested.