Las complejidades de la seguridad y la soberania alimentaria en Venezuela
- Submitting institution
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Middlesex University
- Unit of assessment
- 20 - Social Work and Social Policy
- Output identifier
- 1095
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.18764/2178-2865.v20nEp157-168
- Title of journal
- Revista de Politicas Publicas
- Article number
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- First page
- 157
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 2016
- ISSN
- 2178-2865
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/29529/
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- -
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- Security and food sovereignty are closely linked in Venezuela. Social justice, especially poverty eradication, social exclusion, and undernourishment, have been priority objectives of the Bolivarian process. Therefore food security is a fundamental state policy. While achievements are noteworthy, food sovereignty gains are more modest, the main obstacle being the role of oil in the nation’s economy. A second obstacle is an economic war seeking to erode the base of political support for bolivarianism through hoarding, food smuggling, currency speculation, and the use of fracking to reduce oil prices. As in Chile, such destabilisation can be lethal. (Article published in Spanish)