ABSTRACT
A literature review of French research related to the Regulation Theory (RT) and applied to agriculture and food is first presented. We analyze the changes regarding issues and theoretical perspectives in this domain and propose a new research agenda. In the first part we examine research findings embedded in RT in the 1980’s and 1990’s, focusing on the emergence and crisis of the economic regime of agriculture in industrialised countries during the Fordist period. In the second part we show how this body of research extends the analysis of different dimensions of agricultural transformation, and progressively combines with other research programs. However, we argue that the recent trends in the international context afford an opportunity to revive RT research on agriculture and food. For this purpose, we propose to better integrate RT’s contributions into the analysis of transition studies of agriculture and into that of the diversity of agri-food models and food regimes.
