The World Capitalist Mode Of Agricultural Production Dominated By Monopoly Capital And Food Crisis

Food security caused the international community’s attention and became thecommon goal of the international community because of the worldwide food crisishappened in1972-1974. Another serious food crisis in2008attacked the entire worldagain. The farm prices of wheat, corn, rice and soybean rose by98%,103%,120%and76%compared to2005,37countries suffered serious food shortages, thepopulation in hunger continued to increase in global,923million people in2007,963million people in2008,1.02billion people in2009, many regions of the worldoccurred turmoil. Early2011, FAO warned again: The world may face a new globalfood crisis because the food price index jumped to a record high. The discussionabout the reason of the food crisis caused a widespread concern in theoretical circlesin the last two years, but most economists considered the structural contradictionsbetween supply and demand as the reason of the food crisis and cited a number offactors leading to the changes of the supply and demand. This paper thinks that thesefactors are only direct trigger to the food crisis which happened in the long-termproblems such as the destroyed agricultural production systems in developingcountries and the unreasonable global food system. The fundamental reason for this situation is that the monopolies opened the agricultural markets of the developingcountries successfully by promoting the liberalization of the agricultural sector, andmanipulated the agriculture of the developing countries with its increasingly powerfulmonopoly power, eventually leading to a devastating impact to the global agriculture.The agriculture multinationals made it by promoting the liberalization of theagricultural sector, and gave birth to the factors leading to the food crisis. Thecontradiction between supply and demand is the manifestation of the movements ofthe production relations.This thesis take Marxism as the guiding ideology, follow the tradition of Marxistpolitical economy, start with the changes in the agricultural productive forces andproduction relations, specifically study activities of the transnational agriculturalmonopoly capital in the context of economic globalization and rise to the theory, putforward the corresponding theoretical point of view on the basis of a large number ofdocuments. In the process of the study, I pay attention to absorbing the ideology ofWestern Marxism, radical school as well as other left-wing scholars, strive to usescientific abstract method of Marxism to analyze data, reveal the activity patterns ofthe agricultural monopoly capital on the basis of analyzing the production relationsand the system performance. This thesis not only focuses on revealing the nature, but focuses on quantitative analysis to reflect the varieties of the agriculturalmultinational corporations and transnational monopoly power. The study theoreticallyenriches the “monopoly capital" in the field of agriculture， proposes the differencesbetween the control of monopoly capital in agriculture and the control of monopolycapital in industry, makes a more comprehensive analysis of the formation,development, characteristics and drawbacks of the world capitalist mode ofagricultural production, provides a theoretical basis for understanding the food crisis.In practice, this article analyzes the strategic layout of the agricultural multinationalcompanies in China’s agriculture, checks the devastating impact to China’s foodsecurity, and provides the policy recommendations. At the end, I point the view ofrecovering ecological agriculture to ensure the agricultural sustainable developmentbased on the fact of China’s agricultural development.This article includes eight chapters. The first chapter lists paper ideas, researchframework innovations and shortcomings through the analysis of the food crisis. Thesecond chapter analyzes the processes of the development of capitalism in agriculturein the developed countries, and points out the fundamental logic of the capitalinvolved in agriculture, the capitalist agricultural production is to maximize profitsfor the purpose. The third chapter is a new stage of development of the capital involved in agriculture. This chapter analyzes the monopoly capital how to achievethe control of agriculture with the aid of the agricultural policy of state monopolycapitalism, achieves its control on agricultural production through the control to thefood production chain from seed，purchasing and storage. The fourth chapterexamines the neo-liberal implemented in developing countries how to change theworld’s agricultural patterns, and forms the world food system in favor of monopolycapital. In this process, the self-sufficient food supply system in developing countrieshave collapsed, the lifeblood of the food safety is controlled in the hands of monopolycapital. The fifth chapter analyzes the driving force of the expansion of monopolycapital and the way of the establishment of monopoly capital., then analyzes thenature and characteristics of the world capitalist mode of agricultural productionwhich dominated by monopoly capital, at last pointed out that the process of thechange dominated by the world capitalist mode of agricultural production gives birthto the factors leading to the food crisis. The Chapter sixth essentially points out thereason of the food crisis which is the cumulative effect of the long-term andshort-term factors caused by the monopoly capital-led world capitalistindustrialization mode of agricultural production. The Chapter seventh points outthe fact that developing countries had become the biggest victims in the food crisis because of the unjust world food trade system dominated by monopoly capital, thencriticizes the unsustainable industrialization mode of agricultural production andagree with the ecological sustainability of the traditional mode of agriculturalproduction. The chapter eighth analyzes the strategic layout of the agriculturalmultinational companies in China’s agriculture, checks the devastating impact toChina’s food security, and provides the policy recommendations. At the end, I pointthe view of recovering ecological agriculture to ensure the agricultural sustainabledevelopment based on the fact of China’s agricultural development.