Corporate power in global agrifood governance / edited by Jennifer Clapp and Doris Fuchs. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009. - xix, 308 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Food, health, and the environment. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Agrifood corporations, global governance, and sustainability: a framework for analysis / Jennifer Clapp, Doris Fuchs -- Retail power, private standards, and sustainability in the global food system / Doris Fuchs, Agni Kalfagianni, Maarten Arentsen -- Certification standards and the governance of green foods in Southeast Asia / Steffanie Scott, Peter Vandergeest, Mary Young -- In whose interests? Transparency and accountability in the global governance of food: agribusiness, the Codex Alimentarius, and the World Trade Organization / Elizabeth Smythe -- Corporate interests in US food aid policy: global implications of resistance to reform / Jennifer Clapp -- Feeding the world? Transnational corporations and the promotion of genetically modified food / Marc Williams -- Corporations, seeds, and intellectual property rights governance / Susan K. Sell -- The troubled birth of the "biotech century": global corporate power and its limits / Robert Falkner -- Technology, food, power: governing GMOs in Argentina / Peter Newell -- Corporate power and global agrifood governance: lessons learned / Doris Fuchs, Jennifer Clapp.

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Farm produce--Marketing.
Agricultural industries.
International business enterprises.
Globalization.

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