Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba Koont Sinan
Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba Koont Sinan Pushed by necessity but enabled by its existing social and educational policies, Cuba in the 1990s launched the most extensive program of urban…
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Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba Koont Sinan
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. Al Campbell, University of UtahAs 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. 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.
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