Household Food Security as a Complex System—Contributions to the Social Sciences from the Cuban Perspective during a Pandemic

Yinet Domínguez Ruiz (), Osmanys Soler Nariño, José Manuel Jurado Almonte () and Juan Antonio Márquez Domínguez
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Yinet Domínguez Ruiz: Departamento de Sociología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba 90500, Cuba
Osmanys Soler Nariño: Departamento de Sociología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba 90500, Cuba
José Manuel Jurado Almonte: GI Instituto de Desarrollo Local, Departamento de Historia, Geografía y Antropología, Universidad de Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain
Juan Antonio Márquez Domínguez: GI Instituto de Desarrollo Local, Departamento de Historia, Geografía y Antropología, Universidad de Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 18, 1-18

Abstract: The food crisis caused by the rise in grocery prices affects many countries. Added to this complex panorama is the current health situation generated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Its impact 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) as a dynamic process of building collective nutritional knowledge and eating habits. In the case of Cuba, the burden on the agrifood system is the result of external and internal factors that affect household food sustainability. This paper, therefore, seeks to assess the social construction of HFS as a complex system in the current pandemic scenario using the municipality of Santiago de Cuba as a case study. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used. The main results obtained focus on the role played by women in food use and distribution, and the effect of food vulnerability on HFS. These results provide an analytical model for the study of the new and diverse household-food-security configurations that are emerging.

Keywords: household food security; social sciences; COVID-19; Cuba (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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