Corporate power in selected food commodities

Abstract

Global trade in food commodities is dominated by a few mega-trading transnational corporations. Most of these TNCs are multi-commodity in scope and several of them are privately owned. Hence they are highly unaccountable to public scrutiny, with many of them not even exhibiting the rudiments of a balance sheet.

With Southeast Asia in focus Frederick F Clairmonte and John Cavanagh analyses the configuration of corporate power in this sector of the world economy.