A food regime analysis of the 'world food crisis'
A food regime analysis of the 'world food crisis'
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DOI：
10.1007/s10460-009-9218-5
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发表时间：
2009-12-01
影响因子：
4.5
通讯作者：
McMichael, Philip
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作者：
McMichael, Philip
食物制度的概念是一把钥匙，不仅可以解开资本主义食物关系史上的结构化时刻和转型，也可以解开资本主义本身的历史。它不是关于食物本身，而是关于食物在其中被生产的关系，以及通过它来生产和再生产资本主义。因此，它为2007-2008年间所谓的“世界粮食危机”提供了富有成效的视角。本文认为，这场危机源于工业资本主义依赖化石燃料的长期循环，再加上当前生物燃料抵消和金融投机造成的通胀效应，以及企业粮食制度有利的联合政策导致的农业企业资本的集中和集中。与石油和燃料作物替代品峰值相关的成本上升，再加上农业综合企业的垄断定价，导致粮食价格上涨，并在与新自由主义政策相关的金融和贸易自由化条件下在全球范围内传导。
The food regime concept is a key to unlock not only structured moments and transitions in the history of capitalist food relations, but also the history of capitalism itself. It is not about food per se, but about the relations within which food is produced, and through which capitalism is produced and reproduced. It provides, then, a fruitful perspective on the so-called 'world food crisis' of 2007-2008. This paper argues that the crisis stems from a long-term cycle of fossil-fuel dependence of industrial capitalism, combined with the inflation-producing effects of current biofuel offsets and financial speculation, and the concentration and centralization of agribusiness capital stemming from the enabling conjunctural policies of the corporate food regime. Rising costs, related to peak oil and fuel crop substitutes, combine with monopoly pricing by agribusiness to inflate food prices, globally transmitted under the liberalized terms of finance and trade associated with neoliberal policies.