The BRICs and the Global Agrifood System: Varieties of Capitalism and Food Regime Transformation (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

The BRICS grouping - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - jointly founded the New Development Bank and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement as part of their efforts to constitute a trade, monetary and geopolitical bloc. However, an inability to deal collectively with external pressures, intra-group tensions and ideological divergences has hampered efforts to establish a coherent and articulated strategy.Nevertheless, as key sites of production, circulation and consumption of agricultural commodities and food products, holders of abundant reserves of labour and natural resources, and owners of large home markets, their development trajectories remain crucial to understand not only the future of the global agrifood system but also of capitalism itself.Engaging with recent debates in Comparative Capitalism and Food Regime approaches, this book provides a comparative institutional analysis of the BRICS ‘varieties of capitalism’ and their role in the international reordering of th