Chapter 2: The rise of big food and agriculture: corporate influence in the food system

Corporate concentration has become a dominant feature of the modern industrial food system in recent decades. In nearly all stages of global food supply chains, from farm inputs, to production, to trade, to processing and food retail, a common pattern is that just a handful of firms tend to dominate...

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Main Author: Clapp, Jennifer (auth)
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Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK Edward Elgar Publishing 2022
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