With 10 supermarkets controlling one-quarter of all of the value created in the world food system, supermarkets shape and structure the operation of the corporate food regime.
In the last 50 years the human diet has undergone the most profound shift in its history, as meat assumes an ever-greater role.
The contemporary world food system has been labelled by many observers as the “corporate food regime”. By unpacking the key characteristics of the corporate food regime it is possible to better understand why a food system that is so productive…
Since 1994 the North American Free Trade Agreement has played a central role in governing the international trade of food and agricultural products between the United States, Mexico and Canada, in ways that have not brought benefits to small- and…
Since 1995 the Agreement on Agriculture has played a crucial role in organizing the terms and conditions governing the international trade of food and agricultural products.
Agri-food commodity chains that operate across national borders are regulated by agreements monitored and enforced by the World Trade Organization.
The world food system witnesses unprecedented flows of food and agricultural products across national frontiers. International food and agricultural trade has been integral to the world food system since the first food regime was established, but has…
As the second food regime unravelled it set in motion a series of economic changes in the developing countries that laid the basis for the emergence of global agriculture.
The second food regime set in motion a number of fundamental changes in the global production and consumption of food that reverberate to this day.
Farm subsidies and food aid were pivotal in establishing the second food regime, which reconfigured food production and diets around the world.
