Food is the 'Evergreen' business sector. Financial actors who know little about growing food are imposing control over the real world of food production through investment in all aspects of food supply chain. This financialisation has a direct impact on the natural world. Thread

In the business plans of food giants like ADM, natural variability is a weakness which needs to be managed. Many farmers across the world will go out of business if they dont please the buyers, but how to manage years when a particular crop doesn't flourish?

The answer is often keeping animals indoors in managed conditions, and growing crops in similarly artificial ways. Thus the production cost of food becomes predictable ...

This is what nature is up against.