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Publisher: IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
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Harvest Of Want

Harvest Of Want
Author: Scott Whiteford
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2019-03-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429722346

Harvest of Want demonstrates how hunger and malnutrition can exist simultaneously with growth in agricultural production. It points out a series of factors that have generated food insecurity throughout much of Central America and Mexico. .

Fields of Revolution

Fields of Revolution
Author: Carmen Soliz
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822988100

Fields of Revolution examines the second largest case of peasant land redistribution in Latin America and agrarian reform—arguably the most important policy to arise out of Bolivia’s 1952 revolution. Competing understandings of agrarian reform shaped ideas of property, productivity, welfare, and justice. Peasants embraced the nationalist slogan of “land for those who work it” and rehabilitated national union structures. Indigenous communities proclaimed instead “land to its original owners” and sought to link the ruling party discourse on nationalism with their own long-standing demands for restitution. Landowners, for their part, embraced the principle of “land for those who improve it” to protect at least portions of their former properties from expropriation. Carmen Soliz combines analysis of governmental policies and national discourse with everyday local actors’ struggles and interactions with the state to draw out the deep connections between land and people as a material reality and as the object of political contention in the period surrounding the revolution.

Handbook of Latin American Studies

Handbook of Latin American Studies
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Total Pages: 824
Release: 1979
Genre: Latin America
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Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.