ABSTRACT
The work on the international economy of food in the epoch of imperialism provides a fourth set of issues, or focus, concerning the nature of Agrarian Questions/prospects of agrarian transition today. The basis of the first international food regime from the 1870s was the massive growth of grain production on the vast internal frontiers of 'settler' states: Argentina, Australia, Canada, and above all the USA. If T. J. Byres' comparative political economy of agrarian transition has enjoyed the privilege of considering 'completed transition'. The analysis of the global dynamics of capital, and its stage of modern imperialism, generates issues which must inform consideration of all three Agrarian Questions, without predetermining their answers. Just as Byres demonstrates the possibility of agrarian transition with or without the capitalist transformation of agriculture, one can now pose the salience of AQ1 and AQ2 with or without agrarian transition.
