Corporate Concentration and Technological Change in the Global Seed Industry
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Corporate Concentration and Technological Change in the Global Seed Industry
In the past three decades, the seed sector has experienced, and is now again experiencing, corporate concentration trends. The fallout of this consolidation is the subject of numerous concerns. However, the seed sector is rather poorly understood. Thus, it is useful to understand it better and to investigate the potential impact on the agri-food chain of the trend toward increased corporate con...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sustainability
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2071-1050
DOI: 10.3390/su9091632