Agribusiness Concentration: Globalization, Market Power, and Resistance

The Global Food System: Issues and Solutions

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 31-58

  Constance, Douglas H ^a   Hendrickson, Mary ^b   Howard, Philip H ^c  

^a SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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