Objectives

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Objectives

• Students should have a case study of a TNC
  operating in an LEDC
• Students should recognise the positive and
  negative features of TNCs involvement in
  plantation agriculture

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Questions from your reading?
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What does this image reveal?
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Some examples of TNCs involved in agriculture

• Philip Morris
• Unilever
• Nestle
• Cargill
• ICI
• Du Pont
• Monsato

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• Transnational corporations are among the world's
  biggest economic institutions. A rough estimate
  suggests that the 300 largest TNCs own or control
  at least one-quarter of the entire world's
  productive assets, worth about US5 trillion.1
  TNCs' total annual sales are comparable to or
  greater than the yearly gross domestic product
  (GDP) of most countries (GDP is the total output
  of goods and services for final use by a nation's
  economy). Itochu Corporation's sales, for
  instance, exceed the gross domestic product of
  Austria, while those of Royal Dutch/Shell equal
  Iran's GDP. Together, the sales of Mitsui and
  General Motors are greater than the GDPs of
  Denmark, Portugal, and Turkey combined, and US50
  billion more than all the GDPs of the countries
  in sub-Saharan Africa.2

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How is Agriculture globalised?
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The globalisation of food production.

1. On a world map note down where Unilevers
   plantations can be found using figure 8.25.
2. Then read the article on Unilever pages 110 to
   112 of Agriculture and food.
3. Where do you think the head quarters of Unilever
   can be found?
4. Get into 2 groups, one arguing for the presence
   of firms like Unilever in agriculture, the other
   against. You are to prepare notes for your case.

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Discussion on Should Unilever be involved in
Tanzania?.
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Unilever food for the people?