Cashews, the World Bank, and Mozambique A misguided policy that did nobody any good
Mozambique used to be the world’s largest supplier of cashew nuts. Then along came the World Bank, to help.
Tag: Food economics
Food safety and industry concentration How the back seat of a car is like a bag of leafy greens
How do farmers’ markets and concentrated food industries that depend on long food chains stack up when it comes to food-borne illness? Truth is, nobody really knows.
Beverage skullduggery Drinker beware
Phil Howard, of Michigan State University, casually let slip in our conversation about concentration in the food industry that a brewery in Australia had been fined for faux craft beer. I had to investigate. Its quite an interesting story.
Who owns whom in the food industry Made from concentrate
The number of firms that own the food brands you see is much smaller than you think. That’s not good for consumers or suppliers.
The Hamlet Fire What an industrial accident tells us about industrial food
The Imperial Food Products fire wasn’t really an accident; circumstances conspired to make it extremely likely If it hadn’t happened in Hamlet, it would have happened somewhere else.