List of contributors -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: industrialisation and socialisation of agriculture, towards new regimes -- Novel approaches and theories of global agri-economies -- The ambivalent capitalist socialisation of agriculture -- Regulation...

This book provides a thorough introduction to and examination of agricultural value chains in Sub-Saharan Africa. First, the authors introduce the economic theory of agri-food value chains and value chain governance, focusing on domestic and regional trade in (and consumption of) food crops in a...

In May 2004, I was invited to give a keynote address on Wal-Mart'sinternationalisation at the 88th seminar of the European Association of AgriculturalEconomists (EAAE) in Paris. The theme of the event was "Retailing andProducer-Retailer Relationships in Food Chains" and six of the papers...