Feeding Mexico : the political uses of food since 1910 / Enrique C. Ochoa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ochoa, Enrique, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply--Government policy--Mexico--20th century.

Food supply.

Nutrition policy--Mexico--History--20th century.

Nutrition policy.

Agriculture and state--Mexico--History--20th century.

Agriculture and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Delaware : SR Books, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the 1998 Michael C. Meyer Manuscript Prize! Feeding Mexico: The Political Uses of Food since 1910 traces the Mexican government's intervention in the regulation, production, and distribution of food from the days of Cardenas to the recent privatization inspired by NAFTA. Professor Ochoa argues that the real goals of the government's food subsidies were political, driven by presidential desires to court urban labor. Many of the agencies and policies were hastily set in place in response to short-term political or economic crises. Since the goals were not to alleviate poverty, but to

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Food and Society in Post revolutionary Mexico; 2 From Local to Federal Intervention: Food Policy Priorto the 1930s; 3 Lázaro Cárdenas and the Politics of State Intervention,1934-1940; 4· World War II, Economic Modernization, Food Crisis, and Urban Relief, 1940-1946; 5 Between Economic Efficiency and Political Expediency, 1946-1952; 6 Social Welfare and the State Food Agency, 1952-1958; 7 Rural Crisis and the Creeping Hand of the State in the Countryside, 1958-1970

8 The Apogee of the State Food Agency, 1970-19829 Neoliberalism and the Dismantling of the State Food Agency after 1982; 10 The State Food Agency and the Persistence of Poverty; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8420-2813-7

0-7425-7982-4

OCLC:

857968699