Open AccessCorporate role in food and agriculture
Author(s) -
Jennifer Clapp,
Annette Aurélie Desmarais,
Matias E. Margulis
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
canadian food studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2292-3071
DOI - 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.87
Subject(s) - agriculture , food systems , business , consumption (sociology) , production (economics) , food processing , control (management) , food security , industrial organization , economics , political science , geography , sociology , management , social science , archaeology , law , macroeconomics
Transnational corporations are powerful agents on the global food landscape. They have been able to shift and adapt their activities in a global food economy that has been constantly in flux in recent decades, while at the same time shaping it in ways that serve their interests. The papers in this section highlight the strategies corporations have taken to enhance their power and control in the food system across a range of activities from production to consumption and assess the wider implications of corporate activity in the sector.