Financialization is the increased influence of financial actors and logics on social and economic life, and is one of the key drivers transforming food systems and rural economies around the world. This book explores the connection between financialization, food systems, and rural transformation by critically examining three issues: the concept of financialization and how food and farming is being financialized; the impacts of financialization in the food industry; and financialization in farming and forestry and the impacts this has on rural people and communities
