A preliminary analysis of the Nicaraguan food system. (A progress report of research being carried out under UNRISD's project Food systems and society)
Barraclough, S.
Report, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (83.1): 133
1983
Document Number: 319096
Chapter I of the progress report deals with the evolution of Nicaraguan society with emphasis on the food system before the revolution. An analysis of the crisis leading to the revolution and collapse of the Somoza Government is briefly summarized in Chapter II. The Sandinista Government's food-related policies and some of the problems accompanying them are treated in Chapter III. In Chapter IV, an attempt is made to describe and analyze the present Government's strategy in relation with food security during the transition to a different social system in which the common people should share and participate much more fully in development than they could in the past. Finally, there is a brief discussion concerning the food system that is emerging. CIERA's research programme on food security is summarized in the Appendix.