Internationalization strategies of the meat industry and their implications for a sustainable development

German meat corporations have focused increasingly in the last several years on the international market, both in terms of goods export and foreign direct investment, for example, in Poland and Spain. This subproject is looking at these kinds of geographical expansion strategies in meat-producing value-creation chains and the reasons for them from an economic and geographical perspective. We will look at which political and economic factors determine internationalization strategies and what their implications are, especially for local production relations and sustainable food systems as well as for the structures and processes of inequality.