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The BRICs and the Global Agrifood System: Varieties of Capitalism and Food Regime Transformation book cover

1st Edition

The BRICs and the Global Agrifood System Varieties of Capitalism and Food Regime Transformation

Edited By Fabiano Escher Copyright 2027
288 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The BRICS grouping - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - jointly founded the New Development Bank and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement as part of their efforts to constitute a trade, monetary and geopolitical bloc. However, an inability to deal collectively with external pressures, intra-group tensions and ideological divergences has hampered efforts to establish a coherent and... Read more

Introduction

Part I. Varieties and Commonalities of Capitalism and Food Regime Transformation

1. Varieties of Capitalism: Institutional Diversity and Historical Periodisation

2. Food Regimes: Agriculture and Food in the Evolution of Capitalism

3. Capitalism and the Agrifood Question: A Comparative Institutional Perspective

Part II. The Agrifood Question in the BRICS Varieties of Capitalism     

4. China

5. Russia

6. Brazil

7. India

8. BRICS Development Trajectories in Comparative Institutional Perspective

Part III. The BRICS in the Transformation of the International Food Regime

9. Double Movement, Organic Crisis, and Struggles for World Hegemony: The BRICS as a Mediating Force in the Current Interregnum

10. Food Politics for a New Great Transformation: The BRICS Rural Development Paths and Sustainability in Urbanised Societies

Conclusion

Appendix A 

Index

Biography

Fabiano Escher is Professor at the Department of Development, Agriculture and Society, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His research focuses on the international and comparative political economy and economic sociology of the global agrifood system and rural development dynamics in Brazil, China, and the BRICS. 

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