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To understand food, this chapter conceptualizes the entire agri-food system and global supply chain, including seeds, fertilisers, pesticides, machinery, implements, fuel, and logistics. The agrifood industry is dominated by the large global multinational corporations in the North supporting affluent consumers and marginalizes rural workers.
Introduction: The Mutations of Imperialism
According to the economist Samir Amin, imperialism is ‘the perpetuation and expansion of capitalist relations abroad by force or without the willing consent of the affected people’ (Amsden 1998, p. 728). Imperialism has always been closely related to agriculture and food. This is particularly clear from the work of Rosa Luxemburg (Kowalik 1998), who, putting agriculture at the centre of imperialist relations of exploitation, defined imperialism as ‘the political expression of the...
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Maya Ambìa, C. (2020). Food and Imperialism: Food Regimes, Hegemony and Counter-hegemony. In: Ness, I., Cope, Z. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91206-6_211-2
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