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

Published Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 283 pages) : illustrations, map Series Pitt Latin American series Pitt Latin American series. 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 Summary "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 restrictions, Nicaraguan consumers still carved out spaces for defining their food choices. Despite economic crises, rationing, and war limiting peoples' food selection, consumers responded with improvisation in daily cooking practices and organizing food exchanges through three distinct periods. First, the Somoza dictatorship (1936-1979) promoted culture and food practices from the United States, which was an option only for a minority of citizens. Second, the 1979 Sandinista revolution tried to steer Nicaraguans away from mass consumption by introducing an austere, frugal consumption that favored local products. Third, the transition to democracy between 1988 and 1993, marked by extreme scarcity and economic crisis, witnessed the re-introduction of market mechanisms, mass advertising, and imported goods. Despite the erosion of food policy during transition, the Nicaraguan revolution contributed to recognizing food security as a basic right and the rise of peasant movements for food sovereignty"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Project Muse, viewed on February 17, 2021) Subject 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 HISTORY -- General. Politics and government Nutrition policy Hunger Food supply -- Government policy Agriculture and state SUBJECT Nicaragua -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88002172 Subject Nicaragua Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822987406 0822987406

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