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Sociology of Agriculture and Food (SAFRIG)

Security Owners and Issuers in the Global Agribusiness Network Loka Ashwood*, Loka Ashwood, Mohammad Khalilian, Andy Pilny,

Financialization and corporate structure are rarely put together to identify organizational architecture in economic or rural sociology. We seek to do so through an analysis of the firms and people related to 47 global powerhouse agribusinesses in poultry, turkey, hog, cattle, seeds, chemical, grains, equipment, and fertilizer. We further explore a subset of these powerhouses that issue securities, which are tradable financial assets. We analyze agribusiness security owners across consolidated risk dimensions derived from underlying compliance indicators, including sanctions exposure, forced labor linkages, state-owned enterprise (SOE) relationships, export controls restrictions, regulatory enforcement actions, politically exposed person (PEP) connections, and adverse media coverage related to corruption, financial crime, law enforcement, organized crime, and other reputational risks. We use Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs) to model whether high-risk entities are more likely to occupy central positions or form clustered ownership ties within the network. We conclude by identifying the organizational investment and security investment patterns most acute and cruel in their consequences, and use network simulation models to imagine their alternatives.