Titans Of Industrial Agriculture How A Few Giant Corporations Came To Dominate The Farm Sector And Why It Matters Jennifer Clapp by Jennifer Clapp 9780262551700, 0262551705 instant download after payment.

How a small handful of giant transnational corporations has come to dominate the farm inputs sector, why it matters, and what can be done about it.
Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of farm machinery, fertilizer, seeds, and pesticides are sold to farmers around the world. Although agricultural inputs are a huge sector of the global economy, the lion’s share of that market is controlled by a relatively small number of very large transnational corporations. The high degree of concentration among these agribusiness titans is striking, considering that just a few hundred years ago agricultural inputs were not even marketed goods. In Titans of Industrial Agriculture, Jennifer Clapp explains how we got from there to here, outlining the forces that enabled this extreme concentration of power and the entrenchment of industrial agriculture.
Clapp reveals that the firms that rose to the top of these sectors benefited from distinct market,...