Market Power, Misconceptions, and Modern Agricultural Markets

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Post-exceptionalism in public policy: transforming food and agricultural policy (2017, background): “The integration of the farm sector into often transnational value chains has raised concerns about (small) farmers’ lack of market power, in particular vis-à-vis large retailers and food processors (Sexton 2013).”
Reducing meat consumption in developed and transition countries to counter climate change and biodiversity loss: a review of influence factors (2017, background): “Sexton (2013) has revealed that these power relationships in the U.S. agricultural markets favour consolidation and contract buying so that free markets are no longer relevant in the food sector.”
A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System (2015, background): “Moreover, when fewer firms operate in an industry sector, they compete fiercely with each other, which can hold down prices to their customers (Chung and Tostao, 2012; Sexton, 2013).”
Agri-Food Markets towards Sustainable Patterns (2020, background): “Urbanization generated an increase in the demand for highly processed and quality agri-food products in urban areas [59,64], thus contributing, together with the expansion of the middle class of the emerging areas and the increase in per capita income [38], to bring the consumption choices of large ”