Using a novel dataset on foreign direct investment (FDI), this paper analyzes the correlates of planned FDI in the food … investment location by foreign investors, especially those from the Global North. Capital investment in agriculture, as proxied … agriculture, in the form of government expenditure and official development assistance, is also associated with higher FDI. These …

This book presents Urbal, an approach that applies impact pathway mapping to understand how food system innovations in … cities, and their territories, change and impact food system sustainability. Around the world, people are finding innovative … ways to make their food systems more sustainable. However, documenting and understanding how these innovations impact the …

One of the most pressing concerns about the industrialization of agriculture and food is the consolidation and … concentration of markets for agricultural inputs, agricultural commodities food processing and groceries. In essence a small … minority of actors globally exercise great control over food system decisions. This means that because of increased …

) in the African food and agriculture sector in the last 15 years? (2) What are the drivers of FDI in the African food and … agriculture sector? (3) What is the evidence on the impacts of private-sector investments in the African food and agriculture ….737 billion was invested in the African food and agriculture sector by foreign private-sector investors between 2003 and 2017 …

minerals. However, the India-Africa relations in food and agriculture are already important but have potentials for expansion …, especially as food systems and food value chains are modernizing and technologies in agriculture and food sectors are spreading …. For complex reasons Africa had no transformation of its agriculture comparable to India's during its erstwhile Green …

contrast, the latter benefit must be indirect, with lower food prices contributing favourably to real wages of the urban poor …

In this paper, I first critique the composition-based view of Yadong Luo and John Child for understanding how resource … advantage and strategy. Here, the compositional advantage is redefined as the attractiveness of the composition of the producer … compositional strategies. I argue there are three indispensable key success factors for a composition-based competition, i …

"annual reports" covering a 17-year period. Focusing, particularly, on the membership composition of the Partnership and its …