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Food and revolution : fighting hunger in Nicaragua, 1960-1993 /
"Food policy and practices varied widely in Nicaragua during the last decades of the twentieth century. In the 1970s and '80s, food scarcity contributed to the demise of the Somoza dictatorship and the Sandinista revolution. Although faced with widespread scarcity and political restriction...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Pitt Latin American series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations Used throughout This Book
- Map of Nicaragua
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Growing Tensions: The Agro-export Economy, Food Culture, and Nutrition Surveys, 1950-1965
- Chapter Two. Tensions Revealed: Food Politics, Natural Disaster, and Social Conflicts, 1965-1979
- Chapter Three. The Enthusiastic Founding Stage: Early Revolutionary Food Policy, 1979-1982
- Chapter Four. The Revolutionary Consumer: Food Consumption, National Self-Sufficiency, and External Aggression in the Early 1980s
- Chapter Five. Food Policy Deteriorates into Crisis Management: Economic Cuts, Industrial Agriculture, and Food Aid in the Mid-1980s
- Chapter Six. Food Policy in Tatters: The Return of Hunger during Economic Transition, 1988-1993
- Chapter Seven. Caribbean Transitions: Agricultural Colonization, Nostalgia, and Food Cultures, 1960s-1990s
- Epilogue. Nicaragua's Role in the Debates on Food Security and Food Sovereignty, 1980s-2019
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.