Ecology, capitalism and the new agricultural economy : the second great transformation / Gilles Allaire and Benoit Daviron.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of contributors -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: industrialisation and socialisation of agriculture, towards new regimes -- Novel approaches and theories of global agri-economies -- The ambivalent capitalist socialisation of agriculture -- Regulation theory and agriculture transformations: new issues, new research perspectives -- Convention theory in anglophone agro-food studies: french legacies, circulation and new perspectives -- The new autocracy in food and agriculture -- Ongoing transformations of the agri-economy -- Hegemony, biomass and frontiers -- Food regime analysis: a reassessment -- The holstein cow as an institution of the agricultural modernisation project: commodity or common good? -- Transitions towards a european bioeconomy: life sciences versus agroecology trajectories -- Cases studies: competition in markets and policies -- Organic agriculture in france: alternative project or conventionalisation? -- Japanese agri-food in transition -- Transforming the dairy sector in post-communist economies: actors and strategies -- Large-scale land investments and financialisation of agriculture: an agro-financial filière analysis -- Conclusion: alternative sketches of a second great transformation -- Index.