El régimen alimentario neoliberal y su crisis: Estado, agro empresas multinacionales y biotecnología

• Main Author: Gerardo Otero
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá) 2013-07-01
• Series: Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
• Subjects: Biotechnology; modern agriculture; neoliberalism; neoregulation; peasantry; Green Revolution; technological paradigm.
• Online Access: http://antipoda.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/268/index.php?id=268

Biotechnology has become the central technological form in agriculture since the neoliberal reformation of capitalism in the 1980s. The food-regime perspective introduced by Friedmann and McMichael (1989) anticipated a transition to a third regime from the second, nation-centred regime of the post-World War II years. This paper proposes a characterization of what is called the "neoliberal" food regime to capture its central dynamic components: the state, which promotes international and national neoregulation imposes the neoliberal agenda; large agribusiness transnational corporations (ATNCs), now the crucial economic actors in global capitalism; and biotechnology, the driver behind the modern agricultural paradigm.