Food Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Why, What and How We Eat: Business

Agriculture, whether on a small farm or on an industrial scale, is always a business whether it incorporates financial transactions or an exchange of goods. 

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• Global Food Price Monitor

• World Food Situation

• Food Outlook

• Crop Prospects and Food Situation

• OECD/FAO Agricultural Outlook

• Monthly News Reports on Grains

• Rice Market Monitor

• Oilcrops Monthly Price and Policy Monitor

• Other commodity markets

• Statistics

Use these databases to find articles about business:

• EconLit
  Indexes articles in economics, including economic history, economic theory, microeconomics, macroeconomics, and finance.

• ABI/Inform
  Covers business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information.

• Proquest Central
  Articles on management, finance, economics, industry, accounting, and international business.

• OneSource:
  Provides worldwide company and industry profiles, financials and analysts reports,

• Hoover's Company Profiles
  Company and industry information plus extensive company officer lists, annual and quarterly financials, with a comprehensive overview of more than 50,000 companies.

• Marketline Advantage
  Market research reports focusing on companies and broad industry sectors: consumer goods, energy, finance, healthcare, and technology. Market analysis and forecasting looks at major issues and threats for each sector with analytical commentary and data.

• Agricultural policy, agribusiness, and rent-seeking behavior (2010). Andrew Schmitz, et al. (Eds.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 

• Frontiers of commodity chain research [electronic resource] (2009). Jennifer Bair., and Bair J. (Eds.) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 

• Global sustainability as a business imperative (2010). James A.F. Stoner and Charles Wankel., James Stoner, and Wankel C. (Eds.) NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
  

• Growth and productivity in agriculture and agribusiness: Evaluative lessons from world bank group experience [electronic resource]. (2011). In World Bank. (Ed.) Washington, D.C.: World Bank. 

• Hamilton, L. M. (2009). Deeply rooted: Unconventional farmers in the age of agribusiness. Berkeley: Counterpoint.  

• Local food movement (2010). Amy Francis b. e., Francis A. (Eds.) Detroit: Greenhaven Press. Retrieved from 

• Millennium, C. C. (2010). Agribusiness development initiative: Reducing poverty by expanding investments [electronic resource].

• Norberg-Hodge, H. (2002). Bringing the food economy home: Local alternatives to global agribusiness. Gorelick S., and Merrifield T. (Eds.), Bloomfield, CT: Zed Books; Fernwood Pub. Retrieved from 

• Schurman, R. (2010). Fighting for the future of food: Activists versus agribusiness in the struggle over biotechnology. Munro W. A. (Ed.) Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved from