Farming Cuba

Author : Carey Clouse
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616893248

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Farming Cuba by Carey Clouse Pdf

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 : Fernando Funes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173009687575

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Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance by Fernando Funes Pdf

"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 : Sinan Koont
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813059921

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Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba by Sinan Koont Pdf

“Pushed by necessity but enabled by its existing social and educational policies, Cuba in the 1990s launched the most extensive program of urban sustainable agriculture in the world. This study is to date the only book-length investigation in either English or Spanish of this important national experiment in transforming the environmental, economic, and social nature of today’s dominant system of producing food.”—Al Campbell, University of Utah As large-scale industrial agriculture comes under increasing scrutiny because of its petroleum- and petrochemical-based input costs and environmentally objectionable consequences, increasing attention has been focused on sustainable, local, and agro-ecological techniques in food production. Cuba was forced by historical circumstances to be one of the pioneers in the massive application of these techniques. After the demise of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Cuba was left without access to external support needed to carry on with industrial agriculture. The economic crisis led the country to reconsider their former models of resource management. Cuba retooled its agricultural programs to focus on urban agriculture—sustainable, ecologically sound farming close to densely populated areas. Food now takes far less time to get to the people, who are now better nourished because they have easier access to whole foods. Moreover, urban farming has become a source of national pride—Cuba has one of the best urban agriculture programs in the world, with a thousand-fold increase in urban agricultural output since 1994. 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. Sinan Koont is associate professor of economics at Dickinson College. A volume in the series Contemporary Cuba, edited by John M. Kirk

Author : María Caridad Cruz,Roberto Sánchez Medina
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781552501047

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Agriculture in the City by María Caridad Cruz,Roberto Sánchez Medina Pdf

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 : Karl-Eugen Wädekin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134965335

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Communist Agriculture by Karl-Eugen Wädekin Pdf

A fascinating comparative study of how the agricultural experience of the Soviet Bloc has shaped and sometimes hindered development in the rest of the communist world, this book examines the agrarian policies of China, Mongolia, Vietnam, and Cuba, and provides an account of agricultural development in socialist economies which focuses on both the historical and contemporary aspects of this development.

Author : Urbano Fra Paleo,Leonor Castiñeiras
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351729482

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Family Farms and the Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in Cuba by Urbano Fra Paleo,Leonor Castiñeiras Pdf

This highly original volume investigates and documents the complex interactions between small family farms and Man and Biosphere Reserves in Cuba. Covering over two decades of research in agriculture and biodiversity conservation in Cuba, this book provides a unique case study about sustainable agriculture. It shows how the agricultural biodiversity maintained in situ by family farms within those protected areas provides a strategic source of crop genetic resources, including seeds and planting materials, as well as agroecological knowledge and practices. Agricultural practices within and around the Biosphere Reserves have helped to promote local food security through healthier and more diverse food production, while contributing to the conservation of biodiversity and of ecosystems. The book also reports on the adoption of transdisciplinary methods, combining ecological, agronomic, and socio-economic research, along with participatory methods involving farmers in research to document ethnobotanical and farmer knowledge, revealing rich spots of agrobiodiversity maintained in landscapes, seed systems, and nurseries managed by farmers. It covers a range of ecosystems and biocultural landscapes from arid tropics, tropical hillsides and savannas, montane rainforests, and coastal areas. It examines how family farms in diverse Cuban ecosystems use biodiversity, agro-ecological knowledge, and techniques while sustaining natural and farming landscapes in a scenario of climate change, frequent disasters, and socio-economic and policy changes. This book will be most suitable for those studying or interested in farming practices, biodiversity conservation, food security, agrobiodiversity, and sustainable development, as well as in Cuban studies.

Author : Kathryn Hulen Wylie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023098246

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A Survey of Agriculture in Cuba by Kathryn Hulen Wylie Pdf

Author : May Ling Chan,Eduardo Francisco Freyre Roach
Publisher : Food First Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780935028409

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Unfinished Puzzle by May Ling Chan,Eduardo Francisco Freyre Roach Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Landscape design
ISBN : OCLC:908047798

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Farming Cuba by Carey Clouse Pdf

Author : Paul George Minneman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023988888

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The Agriculture of Cuba by Paul George Minneman Pdf

Author : Julia Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136555954

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Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity by Julia Wright Pdf

Based on original research by the author, who had unique access to the rural areas of Cuba, this book provides the only example of a how a country's agriculture and food supply have coped with conditions of post-peak oil.

Author : Karl-Eugen Wädekin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134965342

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Communist Agriculture by Karl-Eugen Wädekin Pdf

A fascinating comparative study of how the agricultural experience of the Soviet Bloc has shaped and sometimes hindered development in the rest of the communist world, this book examines the agrarian policies of China, Mongolia, Vietnam, and Cuba, and provides an account of agricultural development in socialist economies which focuses on both the historical and contemporary aspects of this development.

Author : United States Tariff Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UIUC:30112069614847

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Agricultural, Pastoral, and Forest Industries in Cuba by United States Tariff Commission Pdf

Author : Urbano Fra Paleo,Leonor Castiñeiras
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351729475

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Family Farms and the Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in Cuba by Urbano Fra Paleo,Leonor Castiñeiras Pdf

This highly original volume investigates and documents the complex interactions between small family farms and Man and Biosphere Reserves in Cuba. Covering over two decades of research in agriculture and biodiversity conservation in Cuba, this book provides a unique case study about sustainable agriculture. It shows how the agricultural biodiversity maintained in situ by family farms within those protected areas provides a strategic source of crop genetic resources, including seeds and planting materials, as well as agroecological knowledge and practices. Agricultural practices within and around the Biosphere Reserves have helped to promote local food security through healthier and more diverse food production, while contributing to the conservation of biodiversity and of ecosystems. The book also reports on the adoption of transdisciplinary methods, combining ecological, agronomic, and socio-economic research, along with participatory methods involving farmers in research to document ethnobotanical and farmer knowledge, revealing rich spots of agrobiodiversity maintained in landscapes, seed systems, and nurseries managed by farmers. It covers a range of ecosystems and biocultural landscapes from arid tropics, tropical hillsides and savannas, montane rainforests, and coastal areas. It examines how family farms in diverse Cuban ecosystems use biodiversity, agro-ecological knowledge, and techniques while sustaining natural and farming landscapes in a scenario of climate change, frequent disasters, and socio-economic and policy changes. This book will be most suitable for those studying or interested in farming practices, biodiversity conservation, food security, agrobiodiversity, and sustainable development, as well as in Cuban studies.

Author : Pam Dawling
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781550925128

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Sustainable Market Farming by Pam Dawling Pdf

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.