Food Regimes
This crop provided the leading dynamism to the first food regime
What is the wheat?
The type of rent that flows from the differential natural qualities of the land
What is the Differential Land Rent?
This arrangement balanced mass production and mass consumption through Keynesian state policy
What is Fordism?
Term for new agricultural exports geared for niche markets
What is FFVs (Fresh Fruits and Vegetables)?
1870s is regarded as the beginning of the First Food Regime due to an important development in the world crop market
What is the creation of world wheat market?
Attempts by industrial capital to reduce or weaken the importance of nature in agriculture, so as to increase greater control of production
What is Appropriationism?
Understanding agricultural restructuring in term of forest/post-fordist divide is heavily criticized by
Who are David Goodman and Michael Watts
A system where "firms can purchase commodities on local markets, directly from producers at the going price and when needed."
What is an Open market system?
Soil that was ploughed for the first time, and cultivated without ecological farming system, eroded and simply began to blow away
What is the Dust Bowl?
Actual elimination of the natural base of agricultural production by using non-agricultural raw materials.
What is Substitutionism?
Production time when human beings are involved in production of a given commodity.
What is Actual Labour time?
batch production in small firms that quickly switch production based on market signals
What is flexible specialization
If White bread was the symbol of Fordist diet in Global South, this was the symbolic Fordist food in the USA
What is beef?
A form of capital that is limited in quantity and relatively immobile
What is Land?
Production time during which non-human organisms are producing (e.g. when seeds grow into mature plants).
What is Biological time?
Formal agreement between firms and producers about what will be produced, how much will be produced and when it will be purchased.
What is contract farming?
Integration of livestock production with agrofood corporations to buy scientifically designed inputs to produce standardized products
What is the Livestock-Feed Complex?
The ratio of the value of capital inputs to the value of labour inputs
What is the Organic composition of Capital?
The two original theorists to postulate that land was an obstacle to capitalist penetration in agriculture.
Who was Karl Marx and Karl Kautsky?
A law passed by the US Congress that enabled "third world countries" to purchase US agricultural products using local currency
What is the Public Law 480?