Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance - Softcover

Fernando Funes; Luis Garcia; Martin Bourque; Nilda Perez; Peter Rosset

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0935028870 ISBN 13: 9780935028874

Publisher: Food First Books, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Dr. Fernando Funes is a researcher at the Pasture and Forage Institute (IIPF) in Havana, and is secretary of the Organic Agriculture Group (GAO) of the Cuban Association of Agronomists and Foresters (ACTAF).

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish

About this edition

• Publisher: Food First Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0935028870
• ISBN 13: 9780935028874
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320