Food, Politics, and Society in Latin America

• Author(s): John C. Super, Thomas C. Wright,
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Pages: 261
• ISBN_10: 0803241372
  ISBN_13: 9780803241374
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Industries / Agribusiness , History / General , Political Science / World / Caribbean & Latin American , Social Science / General , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... Essays on food, the economic policy of food security, and sociological aspects of food consumption in Latin America - examines the historical aspects of nutrition and urban area food distribution; analyses food production in the land reform era, subsistence farming, and the role of USA in providing food aid to Brazil and Colombia; covers food dependence and malnutrition in Venezuela, the impact of revolution on food politics in Cuba and Nicaragua, and the social implications of the green revolution. Graphs, references, statistical tables.