This paper concerns the relationship of the corporate food regime to the current
project of global development, as represented in the Doha Round. The corporate food
regime provides a critical lens on the substantive, institutional and geo-political
contradictions of global development. These contradictions center on the elemental
distinction between food security and food sovereignty, and the tensions within the state
system, as expressed within the WTO. The reorganization of agricultural and food
relations is fundamental to an understanding of the politics of empire and development in
the twenty-first century.