SOAS Department of Economics & CRILS Public Lecture by Jennifer Clapp

In this CRILS and Department of Economics public lecture Professor Jennifer Clapp will explore how growing corporate concentration has become a dominant trend in food systems. She will highlight the complex and longstanding drivers of concentration across different parts of food systems, as well as the types of power that concentration confers to the dominant firms, enabling them to shape markets, policy, and material conditions in food systems. The lecture 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.

Speaker

Professor Jennifer Clapp is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo. 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. Her latest book is Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why it Matters (MIT Press, 2025).

Venue

Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS Univeristy of London

Agenda

Door and registration open at 17:30

Please arrive by 17:50 for a prompt start at 18:00

17:50-19:30 Public lecture and Q&A with audience

19:30-20:30: Drinks reception

This lecture is organized by the Critical Research on Industrial Livestocks (CRILS) Network and Department of Economics, SOAS University of London.

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