During the last two decades an increasing amount of large-scale farming operations have emerged all over the world: from (Eastern) Europe, to South America, China and the countries of the Former Soviet Union. These agribusinesses go under the name of mega-farms or agroholdings: horizontally or vertically integrated operations with farm sizes of up to 500,000 hectares and sometimes even more. These types of farms are not only found in crop farming, but also in animal husbandry. Although some information on agroholdings and other forms of mega-farming operations is available, a systematic analysis of their prevalence, economic performance as well as their social and environmental implications in an international perspective is missing. In this special issue of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Review we present a number of papers that highlight the different aspects of such farms. In this editorial we introduce the topic of agroholdings and place the papers in within the context of the available literature. We end with the presentation of a research agenda for the future.
EDITORIAL
The emergence and proliferation of agroholdings and mega farms in a global context
Frans L.P. Hermans Related information
aResearch Associate, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Theodor-Lieser-Str. 2, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
*Corresponding author: hermans@iamo. de
, Fabio R. Chaddad Related information*Corresponding author: hermans@iamo.
bAssociate Professor, University of Missouri and INSPER, 125 Mumford Hall, Columbia, MO 65211-6200, USA.
†Deceased
, Taras Gagalyuk Related information†Deceased
cResearch Associate, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Theodor-Lieser-Str. 2, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
, Sebastián Senesi Related informationdDirector, Food and Agribusiness Masters Course, Agronomy School, University of Buenos Aires, Av. San Martin 4453, CP 1417, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
, Alfons Balmann Related informationeHead of the Department Structural Change, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Theodor-Lieser-Str. 2, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
International Food and Agribusiness Management Review: 20
(2)- Pages: 175 - 186
Published Online: April 05, 2017
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Keywords: agroholdings, mega farms, integration, farm size
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Caspar Krampe and Adar Fridman
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Pablo Mac Clay and Roberto Feeney
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Yiwu Zeng, Fu Jia, Li Wan and Hongdong Guo
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Bo Hou, Eugene Burgos Mutuc, Linhai Wu, Hsiu-Yu Lee and Kun-Hwa Lu
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Alisher Tleubayev, Ihtiyor Bobojonov, Taras Gagalyuk, Emma García Meca and Thomas Glauben
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Yiwu Zeng, Fu Jia, Li Wan and Hongdong Guo
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Dieisson Pivoto, Bradford Barham, Paulo Dabdab Waquil, Cristian Rogério Foguesatto, Vitor Francisco Dalla Corte, Debin Zhang and Edson Talamini
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Yuying Liu, Wanglin Ma, Alan Renwick and Xinhong Fu
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Hao Fu, Cuiping Zhao, Chuanxing Cheng and Hengyun Ma
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Zekarias Shumeta and Marijke D’Haese