Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in CubaFernando Funes Food First Books, 2002 - 307 pages 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 US trade embargo. Unable to import either food or materials needed for conventional agriculture, Cuba turned inward to self-reliance. Sustainable agriculture, organic farming, urban gardens, smaller farms, animal traction, and biological pest control are all part of the new Cuban agriculture. In this book, Cuban authors offer details of these remarkable achievements to serve as guideposts toward healthier, more environmentally friendly and self-reliant farming. 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 US trade embargo came about by the use of sustainable agriculture, organic farming, urban gardens, smaller farms, animal traction, and biological pest control. In Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in Cuba, Cuban authors offer details--for the first time in English--of these remarkable achievements, to serve as guideposts toward healthier, more environmentally friendly and self-reliant farming. Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in Cuba is the story of Cuba's achievements in the use sustainable agriculture, organic farming, urban gardens, smaller farms, animal traction, and biological pest control to feed the country. |
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HISTORY CONTEXT AND STRUCTURES OF CHANGE | 1 |
CHAPTER SIX Agroecological Education and Training Luis García | 90 |
ALTERNATIVE PRACTICES FOR A NEW AGRICULTURE | 109 |
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activities agroecological alternative ANAP animal application areas Association basic beans biological Center chemical citrus cooperative CPAs created crisis crops Cuba Cuban Cultivos cultural dependence ecological economic effects energy established experience farmers farms feed fertilizers field green harvest Havana hectares higher important improved increase individual industry inputs Institute integrated intercropping International land levels manure mechanisms medicinal methods million MINAG Ministry natural needs obtained organic Orgánica percent Pérez period pest pesticides plant plantain popular population practices production Protection province recent reduced regions requirements Research Institute residues rice role rural Science sector seed social soil Special species structure sugar sugarcane supply sustainable agriculture Table technical techniques technologies tobacco tons traditional UBPC units University urban agriculture varieties vegetables weeds yields