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Food and revolution : fighting hunger in Nicaragua, 1960-1993 / Christiane Berth.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Berth, Christiane, author.
Contributor:
JSTOR (Online Service)
Series:
Pitt Latin American series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Food supply--Government policy--Nicaragua--History--20th century.
Food supply.
Nutrition policy--Nicaragua--History--20th century.
Nutrition policy.
Agriculture and state--Nicaragua--History--20th century.
Agriculture and state.
Hunger--Nicaragua--History--20th century.
Hunger.
History.
Food supply--Government policy.
Nicaragua--Politics and government--20th century.
Nicaragua.
Politics and government.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
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Place of Publication:
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Intro
Contents
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
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 17, 2021).
Other Format:
Print version: Berth, Christiane Food and Revolution
ISBN:
9780822987406
0822987406
Publisher Number:
40030450722
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