Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences, Innovations, Sociétés

The Collective Action of Firms on Regulatory Science: Mechanistic Toxicology as a Market‐Making Epistemic Strategy in the R&D Agrochemical Industry

ABSTRACT The influence of agrochemical firms on testing and risk assessment standards constitutes a central yet understudied dimension of the political economy of agrochemicals and the formation of a corporate‐dominated global pesticide regime. How leading R&D firms—formally posi...

Infrastructuring short food supply chains: how intermediaries bind rules, norms and values

Food supply chains are crucial for food security and socio-economic development, yet their length concentrates value away from producers and consumers disproportionate resources. As the COVID-19 pandemic and the wars in Ukraine and Iran exposed, overreliance on long chains produc...