Barter in the EU: an ethnography of Balkan corporate financial practices

This project investigates the business practices of large agri-corporations, scrutinizing the local impact of illegal and quasi-legal financial schemes that shape entire sectors. Such corporations control many links in the food chain, including agri-food and drink businesses and supermarket chains. Small family farmers rely on them to buy their produce, and are such a large presence on the market in comparison to local actors that they determine the wholesale prices of almost all agri-food products. This vast disparity in market influence sets up a situation where small producers are coerced into business practices that are to their detriment.