Cuba as a Market for United States Agricultural Products
Author | : Kathryn Hulen Wylie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Produce trade |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kathryn Hulen Wylie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Produce trade |
ISBN | : |
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 | : 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 | : 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 | : Pam Dawling |
Publisher | : New Society Publishers |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2013-02-01 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1550925121 |
Growing for 100 - the complete year-round guide for the small-scale market grower. Across North America, an agricultural renaissance is unfolding. A growing number of market gardeners are emerging to feed our appetite for organic, regional produce. But most of the available resources on food production are aimed at the backyard or hobby gardener who wants to supplement their family's diet with a few homegrown fruits and vegetables. Targeted at serious growers in every climate zone, Sustainable Market Farming is a comprehensive manual for small-scale farmers raising organic crops sustainably on a few acres. Informed by the author's extensive experience growing a wide variety of fresh, organic vegetables and fruit to feed the approximately one hundred members of Twin Oaks Community in central Virginia, this practical guide provides: Detailed profiles of a full range of crops, addressing sowing, cultivation, rotation, succession, common pests and diseases, and harvest and storage Information about new, efficient techniques, season extension, and disease resistant varieties Farm-specific business skills to help ensure a successful, profitable enterprise Whether you are a beginning market grower or an established enterprise seeking to improve your skills, Sustainable Market Farming is an invaluable resource and a timely book for the maturing local agriculture movement.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1200 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Fruit trade |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Set includes revised editions of some issues.
Author | : United States. Foreign Agricultural Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Farm produce |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service. Foreign Regional Analysis Division |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |