
Connecting to the source…"It's time to stop caring about what's on our plate", highlighted in the text accompanying the annual Atlas of Business Groups for the 2017, which was issued jointly by the political institutions Heinrich Bell and Rosa Luxemburg, with the assistance of Germanwatch organizations, Oxfam and BUND, but also of the newspaper Le Monde Diplomatique. As highlighted in the guide published yesterday, the development of the agricultural production and food industry concerns us all. Farmers and workers in developing and emerging economies are hit hardest by the power of conglomerates that control the market. As emphasized among others, from 2015 have been done 12 giant corporate mergers, further strengthening a small group of groups along the supply chain. Just seven companies now define global pesticide and seed production. At the end of it 2017 this phenomenon will have become even more acute.
Όπως επισημαίνει στην DW η Μπάρμπαρα Ουνμούσιχ,
διευθυντικό στέλεχος του Ιδρύματος Χάινριχ Μπελ, "we are experiencing an evolution in the field of pesticides and seeds that will soon lead us from oligopolies to three big monopolies. Bayer's merger with Monsanto is imminent, two American giants, Dow Chemical and Dupont, they also want to merge and the Chinese are also in the game, who recently acquired the Swiss agricultural and chemicals group Syngenta'.
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