ABSTRACT
In summarizing those structures contributing to the maintenance of modern industrial farming practices which reinforce the emission trends, this chapter briefs the factors that must be considered important. In an attempt to compare the yields of conventional versus organic farming systems, Seufert et al. conducted an assessment of the available data from 66 previous international studies. Modern agribusiness companies generally employ business strategies with the main aim of earning healthy profits on their goods and services, many of them controlling the entire production chain from growing the crops to food processing and packaging of the final products. During the twentieth century, the post-modern network grew to include agricultural economists, food processors, food distributors, and a complex linkage of wholesale and retail distributors all playing important roles in some aspect of the food system before the commodity is finally delivered to the consumer.
