The rise of global enterprises in the world's food chain / Selma Tozanli -- The performance of multinational agribusinesses : effects of product and geographical diversification / George Anastassopoulos, Ruth Rama -- Innovation in food and beverage multinationals / Oscar Alfranca, Ruth Rama,...

Using a sample of 59 major European food and beverage multinationals and their 8,432 subsidiaries worldwide, we study the characteristics and evolution over time of their inventions. In doing so, we analyse: i) 8,626 EPO applications filed by these companies between 1978 and 2005; ii) 3,650 US...

Este analisis se centra en las actividades de las empresas estado-unidenses y sus contractos de produccion y transformacion agropecuaria y otras formas de inversion en el sector alimentario en America Latina