A chart that’s worth a thousand words.
Phil Howard investigates the relationships between food, agriculture, public health and changes in the food system.
Phil is currently exploring ‘food environments’ and their potential relationships with health outcomes. He is also studying national consumer interest in ‘ecolabels’ as a potential strategy for improving the livelihoods of small- and medium-scale farms, and consolidation in the food system, particularly in the rapidly growing organic sector.
Canadian Organic Growers has consolidated much of Phil Howard’s work on corporate ownership of organic brands with several additional overview of the changing food sector, plus a web forum where Howard responds.
A lot of farmers are talking…
Here’s a link to a Who’s Who in corporate agribusiness, http://www.msu.edu/~howardp/ though a decade out of date!