L'évolution des structures des groupes agro-industriels multinationaux pendant le dernier quart du XXe siècle

The food multinationals are the active actors of the globalisation process of the world economy. By diversifying their products and markets, and by an international expansion of their markets they adopt new strategies to pull themselves up in world ranking and to maximise their profits in order to stay competitive and efficient in a market submitted to continuous changes and continuously shrinking due to a stagnant consumer demand, especially in Western countries. In fact, we can trace some trends on the evolution of the world's agro-food system by observing their structural evolution.