http://www.foodfirst.org/media/press/2002/cubabook.html
Policy Think Tank Releases New Report on Cuba's Successful Organic Farms "To understand Cuban agricultural development we must first look at the richness of detail in this volume. Then we have to step back and squint to capture the truly novel pathway of development that Cuba is pioneering. And then once again we have to focus in on the details, and glimpse the processes through which Cuba is creating something truly new and hopeful for all of humanity." -Professor Richard Levins, Harvard University School of Public Health OAKLAND, CA-Cuba's successful switch from chemical-intensive to sustainable agriculture carried the island nation back from the brink of a national food crisis brought on by the 1990 collapse of trade relations with the former socialist bloc. This fascinating case demonstrates that organic agriculture could actually work as the basis of an entire nation's farming sector, putting the lie to the oft-repeated myth that "organic farming could never feed the world," according to a new book-length report issued by Food First/The Institute for Food and Development Policy, a food policy think tank. The multi-author report, Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in Cuba, is largely written by Cuban experts on agricultural production, and represents the first time Cubans have made public the details of this enormous agricultural transformation. http://www.foodfirst.org/cuba/articles.html OTHER ARTICLES ABOUT SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN CUBA: ===== Los neoliberales que proclaman la inexistencia de las clases sociales y por lo tanto de la lucha de clases, espuman de rabia cuando alguien no cree en su discurso. Yo no espumo de rabia cuando escucho o leo discursos que niegan la existencia de las clases sociales y de sus conflictos. Es que descanso en la verdad histórica, mucho mayor que el discurso frágil que pretende negarla. - Paulo Freire Tomado de "Cartas a Cristina"
