Notes on industry: pesticides and seeds
A short side note: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has just published their report on the “trends towards market concentration: the case of the agricultural input industry”. Together with the data from the ETC Group’s statistics on market shares in the seed sector one gets the following picture:
This might put this into some perspective:
BASF and Monsanto Announce R&D and Commercialization Collaboration Agreement in Plant Biotechnology
But maybe not, as there seems to be much more at stake.
[via taz.de]
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