Food for thought: The politics of financialization in the agrifood system

Competition and Change

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 219-233

  Fuchs, Doris ^a   Meyer Eppler, Richard ^b   Hamenstädt, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agrifood; Business power; Commodity markets; Financialization; Food crisis; Land grabbing; Shareholder value

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883106248     PISSN: 10245294     EISSN: 14772221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1024529413Z.00000000034     Document Type: Article

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