Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions

Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions extends the original conception of the food regime formulated by Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael detailing new dimensions of the succession of imperial intensive and corporate food regimes. Developing the methodological contributions of food regime analysis McMichael re-examines the agrarian question historically and its present-day implications. He introduces regional interpretations of the food regime incorporating gender labour financial ecological and nutritional dimensions into his analysis. Finally McMichael explores the relationships between contemporary food energy climate and financial crises and food regime restructuring which includes such topics as agrofuels land grabbing the bioeconomy agro-security mercantilism and the food sovereignty movement.