Banking on Agriculture: A Review of the World Development Report 2008

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A food regime analysis of the ‘world food crisis’ (2009, background): “Here the food riot phenomenon is critical, because it is the politicized expression of the food crisis geography outlined above (cf. Patel and McMichael 2009).”
The food crisis, industrialized farming and the imperial regime. (2010, background): “The new ‘imperial’ or ‘corporate food regime’ (Ploeg 2008, 256; McMichael 2009, 237), which increasingly governs the production, processing, distribution and consumption of food, implies that relatively small disequilibria in the markets translate into huge fluctuations in prices.”
A food regime genealogy (2009, unknown): “The food sovereignty movement, in politicising the current food order (McMichael 2008a), draws attention to the severe shortcomings of commodifying food, and its ecological foundations, across the world, and in so doing offers a new ethic that would inform a decentered and democratic ‘food…”