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.
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →