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Fusco, Audrey C.

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Local food, sustainability, and Cuba's national food program.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Local food, sustainability, and Cuba's national food program./
Author:	Fusco, Audrey C.
Description:	176 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 47-05, page: 2671.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International47-05.
Subject:	Geography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1462282
ISBN:	9781109070095

Local food, sustainability, and Cuba's national food program.
Fusco, Audrey C.

Local food, sustainability, and Cuba's national food program. - 176 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 47-05, page: 2671.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, 2008.

There is a tendency in food systems research and planning to associate sustainable and socially just food provisioning with the local scale of organization. This thesis questions two assumptions that tie local food provisioning systems to sustainable food production: that localization is the key to environmental sustainability and that food security is best achieved through development of local food systems. I examine the relationship between scale and food provisioning by applying scale and politics of scale theory to a case study of Cuba's food system. I analyze several historical periods leading up to and including the Special Period which followed the collapse of the Soviet Union. During the Special Period Cuba transformed its food system from one based on industrial and export-based production to a system focused on achieving national food security and environmental sustainability. Analysis of the Special Period focuses on the changes that occurred in relationships among places involved in food provisioning at community, regional, national, and international scales. The thesis concludes with ideas about how to move beyond the argument for rescaling and forward to a discussion of how to actually create food provisioning systems that are sustainable and just.

ISBN: 9781109070095Subjects--Topical Terms:

524010
Geography.

Local food, sustainability, and Cuba's national food program.
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