Mergers and acquisitions of sizeable multinational agribusiness industries, such as the merging of Bayer & Monsanto, Dow & DuPont, and ChemChina & Syngenta, have global ramifications on head-to-head competition in agricultural biotechnology innovation, crop seeds, chemical markets, and food security. These mergers will place as much as 70% of the agrochemical industry and over 60% of commercial seeds, and with combined assets of $352.14 billion in the hands of only three companies.
Furthermore, such mergers are emblematic of excessive market concentration across many global agricultural input industries could disrupt trade flows and accelerate the international consolidation of the food and agribusiness industries to the detriment of small and mid-size farmers, rural communities, consumers, and on societies at large. To learn more, see our research brief on The Era of Corporate Consolidation and the End of Competition: Bayer-Monsanto, Dow-DuPont, and ChemChina-Syngenta (View HTML here; download the PDF here).
