Food, Inc.-- Corporate Concentration from Farm to Consumer
evaluation Nov, 2003
Organization - UK Food Group
Author - Vorley, Bill
Web: http://www.ukfg.org.uk

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Resource Link:

http://www.ukfg.org.uk/docs/UKFG-Foodinc-Nov03.pdf

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Associated document(s):

• Food, Inc.-- Corporate Concentration from Farm to Consumer (pdf)

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This resource focuses on the following subjects :

Main Category
   Food Distribution

Subcategories
   • Food industry
   • Trade/globalization

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This resource is aimed at the following scope:

• International

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Teaser Blurb:

This report, written by UK Food Group member Bill Vorley (of IIED) details the impact of buyer power on the food chain, notably detailing its impact on farmers and farm workers.

It rigorously explores how the terms of trade for primary producers have declined and the gap between producer prices and retail prices have grown, accompanied by problems of access to markets for many of the world's farmers.

it examines the impact of the growing concentration of those companies who trade, process, manufacture and sell agricultural goods and the impact on the following commodity chains - cereals, sugar, coffee and cocoa, bananas, diary, poultry, pork, fruit and vegetables and clearly illustrates where the buying power 'bottlenecks' are.