The Politics of Flexing Soybeans in China and Brazil
▻http://www.tni.org/briefing/politics-flexing-soybeans-china-and-brazil?context=69566
In terms of production volume, land use, and international trade, soy is among the most important crops in the world today. State- and agribusiness-led processes of agro-industrialization have profoundly expanded soy’s frontier, such that over the past 60 years or so, global soybean production has increased by almost 1,000 percent, while the land area under soy cultivation has more than quadrupled (FAOSTAT n.d., USDA 2014).
▻http://www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/files/download/flexcrops03.pdf
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