Food, politics, and society in Latin America / edited by John C. Super and Thomas C. Wright. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1985. - xv, 261 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Latin American studies series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : perspectives on food in Latin America -- The formation of nutritional regimes in colonial Latin America / The politics of urban provisioning in Latin American history / Succulence and sustenance : region, class, and diet in nineteenth-century Peru / Latin American food production and population in the era of land reform since the 1950's / Subsistence agriculture in Latin America / United States food aid and the agricultural development of Brazil and Colombia / Food dependency and malnutrition in Venezuela, 1958-74 / Food production and distribution in Cuba : the impact of the revolution / Food politics and agricultural change in revolutionary Nicaragua, 1979-82 / Sociopolitical forces and technology : critical reflections on the green revolution / John C. SSuper -- Thomas C. Wright -- Vincent C. Peloso -- James W. Wilkie and Manuel Moreno-Ibáñez -- Roland Bergman -- Lana L. Hall -- Eleanor Witte Wright -- Nancy Forster and Howard Handelman -- Rose J. Spalding -- Ivan Sergiio Freire de Sousa, Edward Gerald Singer, and William Flinn.

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Food supply--Latin America.
Food consumption--Latin America.
Food supply--Government policy--Latin America.
Alimentos--Consumo--Discursos, ensayos, conferencias


Latin America--Social conditions.
Hispanoamérica--Condiciones sociales--Discursos, ensayos, conferencias

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