
Merchants of Grain: The Power and Profits of the Five Giant Companies at the Center of the World's Food Supply
Dan Morgan
Merchants of Grain: The Power and Profits of the Five Giant Companies at the Center of the World's Food Supply
Dan Morgan
Discusses the five multinational grain companies, owned by seven American and European families, that control most of the international trade in basic food commodities.
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- Viking Adult
- Year
- 1979
- Genre
- Business & Economics
- Topics
- Grain tradeMultinational corporationsGlobal food supply
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1981)
Other awarded books from Dan Morgan
- Rising in the West: The True Story of an “Okie” family in Search of the American Dream
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