ABSTRACT
In thus chapter, the authors found in the sociology of agriculture and food some approaches closer to what thry needed, especially in the concepts of food regimes and farming styles. Food orders are arrangements of rules, habits, values, identities, meanings and artifacts associated with particular ways of producing, distributing, selling, buying, preparing and eating. The development of different trajectories, which can be interpreted through the evolution and differentiation of food orders, is a result of the agency capacity of social actors to react to institutional and technological pressures, as well as to produce institutions and artifacts that enable them to conform to new social practices and orders. In the Brazilian case, given the deeply critical moment that the country has been experiencing since at least 2013, the sharpening of institutional changes is visible. Understanding institutional changes also implies going beyond interactions and overlaps between different food orders to encompass their nexus with other social orders.
