For the world’s leading agribusinesses, climate change represents both a threat and an opportunity. The threat, of course, is the uncertainty of crop growing conditions and that supply chains won’t be able to adjust and deliver inputs of seeds, pesticides, and fertilizers where and when they can be sold. There are two theoretical solutions. The traditional genetics response is to enlarge research to diversify crop and livestock species and to adapt other inputs as/if needed. Alternatively, agribusiness can opt for a different kind of diversification, expanding the limited—but tried and true—repertoire of crops and livestock to more markets on the assumption that they will have sufficient varietal/breed diversity “through time and space” to grow something without upsetting the food/feed processors and retailers.

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• Mooney, P., Group, E., (2025), "CRFA - The changing agribusiness climate: Corporate concentration, agricultural inputs, innovation, and climate change", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.107)

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1. Agricultural Biodiversity Agroecology
2. big data
3. climate change
4. climate smart agriculture
5. Corporate Concentration
6. Crops
7. Genetic Diversity
8. Industrial Food Chain
9. Innovation
10. Livestocks
11. Oligopoly
12. Peasant Food Web
13. Seeds

Original publication: Mooney, Pat; Group, ETC. "CRFA - The changing agribusiness climate: Corporate concentration, agricultural inputs, innovation, and climate change." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, vol. 2, no. 2, 2015, pp. 117-125. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.107. 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/.