Subsistence migration: Smallholder food security and the maintenance of agriculture through mobility in Nicaragua

Through a case study highlighting linked migration and small‐scale agriculture in six villages in the municipality of Somotillo, in the north‐western Nicaraguan department of Chinandega, this paper contributes to understandings both of south–south, or Central American regional, migration and of the relationship between migration and food security.

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Carte, Lindsey; Radel, Claudia; Schmook, Birgit
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Carte, L., et al. 2019. Subsistence migration: Smallholder food security and the maintenance of agriculture through mobility in Nicaragua. The Geographical Journal 185(2): 180-193.

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2019
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