Transnational corporations are powerful agents on the global food landscape. They have been able to shift and adapt their activities in a global food economy that has been constantly in flux in recent decades, while at the same time shaping it in ways that serve their interests. The papers in this section highlight the strategies corporations have taken to enhance their power and control in the food system across a range of activities from production to consumption and assess the wider implications of corporate activity in the sector.

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• Clapp, J., Desmarais, A., Margulis, M., (2025), "CRFA - Corporate role in food and agriculture", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.87)

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Original publication: Clapp, Jennifer; Desmarais, Annette; Margulis, Matias. "CRFA - Corporate role in food and agriculture." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, vol. 2, no. 2, 2015, pp. 115-116. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.87. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. Copyright © the author(s). Work published in CFS/RCÉA prior to and including Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license. Work published in Vol. 8, No. 4 (2021) and after is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.