The fifteenth meeting of the UNCTAD Research Partnership Platform was held on July 3 in Geneva, Switzerland. Alexey Ivanov, Director of the BRICS Competition Centre, spoke in the session entitled "Global Food Markets, Competition and Consumer Policy Issues".
In recent years, the transformation of the global economic trading system has led to the emergence of complex global value chains, challenging policymakers. Food-related global value chains are particularly notable due to their broad impact on efficiency, safety, and environmental issues, affecting stakeholders worldwide. These evolving challenges necessitate continuous scrutiny by policymakers in competition and consumer protection.
The participants of the meeting discussed the peculiarities of the current food system, the problem of concentration in different value chains in agriculture and the most effective tools for antimonopoly regulation of this sector of the economy. Read more about the discussion.
Participants:
- Ms. Teresa Moreira, Head, Competition and Consumer Policies Branch (CCPB), UN Trade and Development;
- Prof. Alexey Ivanov, Director, BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre;
- Ms. Doris Tshepe, Commissioner, South Africa Competition Commission;
- Dr. Natalie Harsdorf-Borsch, Director-General, Austrian Federal Competition Authority;
- Prof. Ioannis Lianos, Professor, Chair in Global Competition Law and Public Policy, Faculty of Laws, University College London;
- Ms. Liz Coll, Connected Consumers, United Kingdom;
and others.