Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in CubaFernando Funes 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. |
Contents
HISTORY CONTEXT AND STRUCTURES OF CHANGE | 1 |
ALTERNATIVE PRACTICES FOR A NEW AGRICULTURE | 109 |
EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDIES | 212 |
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Agrarian University Agricultura Orgánica agricultural production Agriculture MINAG agroecological ANAP animal traction areas bagasse beans biofertilizers biological control biological pest control campesino caña de azúcar cassava cattle CCSs Center chemical Ciego de Ávila citrus cooperative CPAs crisis Cuba Cuba's Cuban Cultivos Desarrollo duction ecological economic Encuentro Nacional feed García González green manures harvest Havana province hectares Hernández important increase industry inputs integrated intercropping kg/ha l/ha land levels maize Martínez medicinal plants million Ministry of Agriculture Monzote Nacional de Agricultura National nitrogen Organic Farming organopónicos Pasture percent Pérez pest control pesticides polycultures Popular Rice population practices producción protein province regions Research Institute residues Resúmenes Rosset rural Sancti Spíritus sector seed small farmers social socialist soil sugar sugarcane sustainable agriculture sweet potato t/ha Table technologies tobacco tons UBPC UNAH University of Havana urban agriculture varieties vegetables Villa Clara weeds yields