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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Berth, Christiane (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
Series:	Pitt Latin American series.
Subjects:	Food supply > Government policy > Nicaragua > History > 20th century. Nutrition policy > Nicaragua > History > 20th century. Agriculture and state > Nicaragua > History > 20th century. Hunger > Nicaragua > History > 20th century. Nicaragua > Politics and government > 20th century. Electronic books.
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Table of 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