The Neoliberal Regime in the Agri-Food Sector

Steven A. Wolf is Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University, New York, USA. He is also a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College, University of London, UK. Alessandro Bonanno is Texas State University System Regents’ Professor and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA.

Introduction Part 1: Theoretical Analyses and Key Concepts 1. The Legitimation Crisis of Neoliberal Globalization: Instances from Agriculture and Food 2. How Neoliberal Myths Endanger Democracy and Open New Avenues for Democratic Action 3. Policing the New Enclosures: On Violence, Primitive Accumulation, and Crisis in the Neoliberal Food System Part 2: Case Studies 4. The Rise and Fall of a Prairie Giant: the Canadian Wheat Board in Food Regime History 5. Navigating the Neoliberal-Nativist Interface: Farmer Survival and the Construction of Racially Segregated Workplaces 6. Creating Rupture through Policy: Considering the Importance of Ideas in Agrifood Change 7. Beyond Farming: Cases of Revitalization of Rural Communities through Multi-Role Community Farming Enterprise as Social Service Provider Part 3: Research Opportunities 8. To Bt or not to Bt? State, Civil Society, and Firms Debate GM Seeds in Democratic India 9. Turning of the Tide: Rising Discontent over Transgenic Crops in Brazil 10. U.S. Agrienvironmental Policy: Neoliberalization of Nature Meets Old Public Management 11. For Competitiveness Sake?: Material Competition vs. Competitiveness as a National Project 12. The Neoliberal Food Regime in Latin America: State, Agribusiness Transnational Corporations and Biotechnology 13. ‘Just Another Asset Class’?: Neoliberalism, Finance, and the Construction of Farmland Investment 14. Neoliberalism in the Antipodes: Understanding the Influence and Limits of the Neoliberal Political Project 15. Conclusion: The Plasticity and Contested Terrain of Neoliberalism