The Agriculture Of Cuba
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Author | : Sinan Koont |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Agriculture and state |
ISBN | : 9780813037578 |
Sinan Koont has spent the last several years researching urban agriculture in Cuba, including field work at many sustainable farms on the island. He tells the story of why and how Cuba was able to turn to urban food production on a large scale with minimal use of chemicals, petroleum, and machinery, and of the successes it achieved--along with the continuing difficulties it still faces in reducing its need for food imports--
Author | : Fernando Funes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
"This is a story of resistance against all odds, of Cuba's remarkable recovery from a food crisis brought on by the collapse of trade relations with the former socialist bloc and the tightening of the U.S. embargo. Unable to import either food or the farm chemicals and machines needed to grow it via conventional agriculture, Cuba turned inward toward self-reliance. Sustainable agriculture, organic farming, urban gardens, smaller farms, animal traction and biological pest control are part of the successful paradigm shift underway in the Cuban countryside. In this book Cuban authors offer details-for the first time in English-of these remarkable achievements, which may serve as guideposts toward healthier, more environmentally friendly and self-reliant farming in countries both North and South."--Publisher's description
Author | : Peter Rosset |
Publisher | : Ocean Press (AU) |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The first detailed account of Cuba's turn to a system of organic agriculture prepared on an international scientific delegation and fact-finding mission on low-input sustainable agriculture which visited Cuba in late 1992.
Author | : Paul George Minneman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : May Ling Chan |
Publisher | : Food First Books |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0935028404 |
Cuba is widely recognized for its social achievements including health care, education, social security, subsidized food and other benefits and opportunities, despite well-meaning, or sometimes not so well-meaning, international criticisms. For more than 50 years, this Caribbean island has defended and sustained these economic, political, social and cultural gains, and has maintained a commitment to humanitarianism and international solidarity that persists to this day. Part one of Unfinished Puzzle describes the socioeconomic context of Cuban agriculture, the natural environment that affect it and the international political context in which it has developed. Part two explores the unique agricultural policies Cubans implemented to confront the food and economic crises of the early 1990s. Finally, part three examines the lessons to be learned from the Cuban experience with respect to local development, sustainable agriculture, agroecology, food security and food sovereignty. It highlights the elements of the Cuban system most suitable for replication in other countries facing similar circumstances or challenges.
Author | : Carey Clouse |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2014-05-27 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1616893249 |
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Cuba found itself solely responsible for feeding a nation that had grown dependent on imports and trade subsidies. With fuel, fertilizers, and pesticides disappearing overnight, citizens began growing their own organic produce anywhere they could find space— on rooftops, balconies, vacant lots, and even school playgrounds. By 1998 there were more than 8,000 urban farms in Havana producing nearly half of the country's vegetables. What began as a grassroots initiative had, in less than a decade, grown into the largest sustainable agriculture initiative ever undertaken, making Cuba the world leader in urban farming. Featuring a wealth of rarely seen material and intimate portraits of the environment, Farming Cuba details the innovative design strategies and explores the social, political, and environmental factors that helped shape this pioneering urban farming program.
Author | : Kathryn Hulen Wylie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : María Caridad Cruz Hernández |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : María Caridad Cruz |
Publisher | : IDRC |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1552501043 |
During the 1990s, several national economies saw their urban food markets collapse. Like Zambia, Mozambique, and Armenia, Cuba responded to this crisis with a food program that included support to urban agriculture: farming in the city. As a result, food prices are increasing, free markets have been reinstated, production cooperatives have been linked with markets, land has been redistributed, and areas under export crops have been converted to domestic food crops. The Cuban government is now calling upon its cities to become more self-reliant for food OCo a focus that is dramatically modifying the landscape, lifestyle, and food supply of Havana residents."
Author | : Paul George Minneman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |