The increasing intensification and capitalization of the production, transport, storage, and retailing of foods, especially of ‘Westernized’ products, associated with agribusiness and transnational corporation. Industrial farming in more economically developed countries has led to the dumping of cheap food on world markets, and, in less economically developed countries, increasing dependence on imported food and the ‘Westernization’ of diets, and the undermining of local food production systems through undercutting prices.

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