RT Journal Article
T1 Household Food Security as a Complex System—Contributions to the Social Sciences from the Cuban Perspective during a Pandemic
A1 Domínguez Ruiz, Yinet
A1 Soler Nariño, Osmanys
A1 Jurado Almonte, José Manuel
A1 Márquez Domínguez, Juan Antonio
AB The food crisis caused by the rise in grocery prices affects many countries. Added tothis complex panorama is the current health situation generated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Itsimpact on the productive sector will be detrimental to many household incomes and food practices.The social sciences need to adopt a complex understanding of household food security (HFS) asa dynamic process of building collective nutritional knowledge and eating habits. In the case ofCuba, the burden on the agrifood system is the result of external and internal factors that affecthousehold food sustainability. This paper, therefore, seeks to assess the social construction of HFS asa complex system in the current pandemic scenario using the municipality of Santiago de Cuba as acase study. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used. The main results obtained focus on therole played by women in food use and distribution, and the effect of food vulnerability on HFS. Theseresults provide an analytical model for the study of the new and diverse household-food-securityconfigurations that are emerging
PB MDPI
SN 2071-1050 (electrónico)
YR 2022
FD 2022-09
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/21397
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/21397
LA eng
NO Ruiz, Y. D., Nariño, O. S., Almonte, J. M. J., & Domínguez, J. A. M. (2022). Household Food Security as a Complex System—Contributions to the Social Sciences from the Cuban Perspective during a Pandemic. In Sustainability (Vol. 14, Issue 18, p. 11783). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141811783
NO This publication was made with the financing and support of the CIPHCN
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026