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Let them eat data
Trudi Zundel and Silvia Ribeiro
The EU, US and other competition authorities are greenlighting more than a quarter trillion US dollars in agribusiness mega-mergers. In last year’s edition of the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch, Mariam Mayet and Stephen Greenberg warned that if the current three agribusiness mega-mergers on the table went through, farmers’ sovereignty and the human right to adequate food and nutrition would suffer. At the time of writing (early 2018), it is looking like all three will be approved and the three merged companies (Bayer-Monsanto, Dow-Dupont – now Corteva, and ChemChina-Syngenta) will control two thirds of seed and agrochemical markets, increasing the power of corporations to dictate input prices and farmers’ choices.