Food Sovereignty vs. the Corporate Food Regime

In the twenty-first century, the Polanyian trinity of fictitiouscommodities (land, labor and money) cannot be realised through thetwentieth-century double movement. The regulation of money is no longervested in the state per se, but in instrumentalities such as the IMF, whosetask has become a generalized imperative to reproduce (corporate) moneythrough expending labor and land across the world with decreasing regardfor their sustainability. The construction of a 'world agriculture,'deepening the instrumental use, misuse, and abandonment of natural andsocial resources, unfolds within this general imperative. This paper arguesthat the world-wide food sovereignty movement is the most direct symptom ofthis socio-ecological crisis, embodying a diversity of responsescorresponding to the re-spatialization of social and economic relations inthe corporate food regime. As an expression of the corporate food regime,it reveals both the immanent, and the historical, conditions governing thepolitics of capitalist development under the neo-liberal project. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding