Özet:

Food crises and food riots in various parts of the World emphasize the changing nature of food. Several approaches have been put forward to explain the changing nature of agriculture which is in parallel with neoliberalism. Among these approaches, food regime analysis does not only explain food-related concepts, but also reveals this historical transformation in detail. The food regime, which deals with food production and consumption on certain historical periods, helps to understand the international division of labor within the context of capitalist accumulation. The study is based on Philip McMichael's triple food regime approach. Considering the food regime analysis, the transformation of the agricultural products trade in Turkey is parallel to the changes in world trade or the periodic change in the framework of the division of labor. The country is one of the largest exporters in the world before 2000, Turkey lost its position and dropped to the importer. Delimiting export extent to food only is not enough to evaluate the balance of agricultural foreign trade. It is necessary to re-evaluate the analysis taking into account the agricultural raw materials. In agricultural trade, a bilateral structure is formed. There is surplus in food and processed agricultural products trade. However, since the mid-1980s, unfavorable balance of trade occurred in agricultural raw materials trade and this deficit has continued to date. The surplus given in food and processed products no longer meets the deficit given in agricultural raw materials and a running deficit emerges.

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