Cereal Secrets: The world’s largest grain traders and global agriculture

By S. Murphy, D. Burch, J. Clapp. 2012

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The politics of flexing soybeans: China, Brazil and global agroindustrial restructuring (2016, background): “They also illustrate the process of financialization associated with flexing (cf. Murphy et al. 2012, Borras et al. 2014), the emergence of Brazilian companies that are able to compete with major transnational corporations and the key role of the state not only in establishing the biodiesel…”
Ultra‐processed foods and the nutrition transition: Global, regional and national trends, food systems transformations and political economy drivers (2020, background): “Palm oil is now the world's most significant vegetable oil,(136) with food manufacturing using an estimated 70% of production and half of all packaged and processed foods containing this oil or its derivatives.(133)”
Food and finance: the financial transformation of agro-food supply chains (2014, background): “Traditional agribusiness and many governments, for instance, are more concerned about their access to food than the appreciation of land values (Murphy et al. 2012).”
Finance for agriculture or agriculture for finance (2015, background): “Large agricultural trading interests, however, have benefited Clapp/Martin JAC Submission 10 from these changes, as they increasingly joined financial institutions in offering agricultural commodity derivative products to investors (Murphy et al. 2012).”