ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that 'agrofuels' represent the crisis of the current food regime insofar as they breach the implicit rules of the neoliberal world order, by which food security is to be guaranteed through corporate stewardship of the global market, as the durable and efficient allocator of agricultural resources. Heralded as a form of 'ecological modernisation', they have been revealed as a questionable development, especially insofar as they exacerbate the global food crisis, entwined as it is with the climate and energy crises. Bill Pritchard has argued that the World Trade Organization (WTO) is a hangover from the crisis of the preceding regime, by which he means the WTO emerged as a solution to that regime crisis, but retained some of its mercantilist relations. As Campbell advocates, food regime analysis requires a political ecological perspective, founded in Marx's concept of the 'metabolic rift'. Analogously, the proliferating food sovereignty movement proposes restoring natural metabolism through social knowledges anchored in agro-ecological practices.
