Trading on Pork and Beans: Agribusiness and the Construction of the Brazil-China-Soy-Pork Commodity Complex

International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics

Volumn 20, Issue , 2013, Pages 193-210

  Peine, Emelie K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestic Enterprise; Foreign Investment; Foreign Ownership; Supply Chain; Transnational Corporation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85101420205     PISSN: 15703010     EISSN: 22151737     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6274-9_10     Document Type: Chapter

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