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