Food and Revolution : Fighting Hunger in Nicaragua, 1960-1993 /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Berth, Christiane (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Politics and government.
Nutrition policy.
Hunger.
Food supply > Government policy.
Agriculture and state.
Hunger > Nicaragua > History > 20th century.
Agriculture and state > Nicaragua > History > 20th century.
Nutrition policy > Nicaragua > History > 20th century.
Food supply > Government policy > Nicaragua > History > 20th century.
Nicaragua.
Nicaragua > Politics and government > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Growing Tensions: The Agro-export Economy, Food Culture, and Nutrition Surveys, 1950-1965
  • Tensions Revealed: Food Politics, Natural Disaster, and Social Conflicts, 1965-1979
  • The Enthusiastic Founding Stage: Early Revolutionary Food Policy, 1979-1982
  • The Revolutionary Consumer: Food Consumption, National Self-Sufficiency, and External Aggression in the Early 1980s
  • Food Policy Deteriorates into Crisis Management: Economic Cuts, Industrial Agriculture, and Food Aid in the Mid-1980s
  • Food Policy in Tatters: The Return of Hunger during Economic Transition, 1988-1993
  • 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.

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