Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Food Security And Nutrition

scholarly journals Better together: improving food security and nutrition by linking market and food systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-205
Author(s):  
Martha Cruz Zuniga ◽  
Monty L. Lynn ◽  
Elly Kaganzi Mwesigwa ◽  
Dan Norell ◽  
Vidhya Sriram ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food Security And Nutrition

Food security and nutrition monitoring systems in Africa

Food Policy ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria J. Quinn ◽  
Eileen Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Monitoring Systems ◽  
Nutrition Monitoring ◽  
Food Security And Nutrition

Landscape of Migration

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
South American ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Cash Crop ◽  
Revolutionary Movement ◽  
Export Agriculture ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Regional Capital ◽  
Tropical Lowlands ◽  
Do So

In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the "March to the East." In an impoverished country dependent on highland mining, the MNR sought to convert the nation’s vast "undeveloped" Amazonian frontier into farmland, hoping to achieve food security, territorial integrity, and demographic balance. To do so, they encouraged hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Bolivians to relocate from the "overcrowded" Andes to the tropical lowlands, but also welcomed surprising transnational migrant streams, including horse-and-buggy Mennonites from Mexico and displaced Okinawans from across the Pacific. Ben Nobbs-Thiessen details the multifaceted results of these migrations on the environment of the South American interior. As he reveals, one of the "migrants" with the greatest impact was the soybean, which Bolivia embraced as a profitable cash crop while eschewing earlier goals of food security, creating a new model for extractive export agriculture. Half a century of colonization would transform the small regional capital of Santa Cruz de la Sierra into Bolivia's largest city, and the diverging stories of Andean, Mennonite, and Okinawan migrants complicate our understandings of tradition, modernity, foreignness, and belonging in the heart of a rising agro-industrial empire.

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