What are the potential consequences when a relatively small number of large firms come to
dominate markets within the global food system? This Perspective examines the …

The relationship between pesticides and pollinators, while attracting no shortage of attention
from scientists, regulators, and the public, has proven resistant to scientific synthesis and …

The growing use of chemical herbicides for weed control has become a dominant feature of
modern industrial agriculture and a major environmental and health concern in agricultural …

Who controls what we eat? This book reveals how dominant corporations, from the
supermarket to the seed industry, exert control over contemporary food systems. It analyzes …

Non-technical summaryModern agriculture is associated with numerous environmental
predicaments, such as land degradation, water pollution, and greenhouse gas emission …

The commercial seed industry has undergone tremendous consolidation in the last 40 years
as transnational corporations entered this agricultural sector, and acquired or merged with …

Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket
fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of …

This article provides an overview of the US bioeconomy, discussing how its definition has
evolved and been formalized over time. The first attempts to conceptualize and define the …

This commentary is a face-to-face debate between two almost opposite positions regarding
the application of genetic engineering in agriculture and food production. Seven questions …

How best to foster agricultural development in the Third World has long been a subject of
debate and from a European perspective the persistent failure to design peasant-friendly …