the agriculture and food sectors, using a novel database of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) covering the period 1997 …

1. Introduction -- 2. Structure of agriculture -- 3. The Food industry -- 4. Food value chains -- 5. The position of … agriculture -- 6. Agricultural and trade policy -- 7. Markets -- 8. Consumers and consumption -- 9. Resources -- 10 Food supply … and defines over 80 contemporary ‘megatrends’ in agriculture and the food market that can be empirically documented and …

in the current post-globalization era, the food and nutritional security of the world’s population no longer depends just … agriculture and trade, which have influenced the mainstream debate on food security for nearly 60 years, and adopts instead a … on the performance of agriculture and policies on trade, but rather on the capacity of the entire (food) system to …