Essays on food, the economic policy of food security, and sociological aspects of food consumption in Latin America - examines the historical aspects of nutrition and urban area food distribution; analyses food production in the land reform era, subsistence farming, and the role of USA in providing food aid to Brazil and Colombia; covers food dependence and malnutrition in Venezuela, the impact of revolution on food politics in Cuba and Nicaragua, and the social implications of the green revolution. Graphs, references, statistical tables.