Biotechnologies in the Agricultural Inputs Market and Human Rights
Regulatory challenges
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https://doi.org/10.21057/10.21057/repamv17n1.2023.55058Keywords:
megamergers, mercado de insumos agricolas, human rights, sustainabilityAbstract
The paper seeks on the one hand, to understand the practices in the global/local market for agricultural inputs that have intertwined seeds with biochemical technologies, which consolidated an oligopoly of three giant companies, and the impacts on human rights and sustainability and, on the other hand, to evaluate the regulatory initiatives for human rights and companies and their adequacy for the inputs market. The methodology adopted comprises an empirical phase, using the methodologies and concepts of economic sociology - from Pierre Bourdieu and Saskia Sassen - and an analytical phase with a normative bias, based on Surya Deva's concept of adequacy. The research revealed that the operations of companies in concentrated markets, such as agricultural inputs, require more robust and appropriate regulatory initiatives, which go beyond the negative obligation to act with due diligence to avoid human rights abuses.
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