Agri-food restructuring and third world transnationals: Thailand, the CP Group and the global shrimp industry

World Development

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 513-530

  Goss, Jasper ^a   Burch, David ^a   Rickson, Roy E ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Charoen Pokphand; Corporate commodity systems; Southeast Asia; Thailand

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE INDUSTRY; FOOD INDUSTRY; SHRIMP FISHERY;

THAILAND;

EID: 0034018007     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(99)00140-0     Document Type: Article

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