ABSTRACT
The history of capitalism is embedded in waves of land enclosure for human and natural resources, commercial food production, and crisis management. Land grabbing patterns characterise successive food regimes, conditioned by hegemonic geo-political projects, and specified by distinct forms of global food provisioning. Financialisation of agri-food relations in the recent corporate food regime deepens landscape commodification to ‘feed the world’ and ‘save the planet’ with market incentives. Public authority complicity in alienating common property resources for private enclosure, via so-called public–private partnerships, constitutes a power grab to pre-empt alternatives to ‘agriculture without farmers’.
