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- Agricultural Production and Sales in Cuba - Review of the variety of forms of agricultural production and sales in Cuba. Explains how food is grown and marketed in Cuba, including organic urban gardens.
hometown.aol.com/webcuba/agriculture.html
- Antonio Núñez Jiménez Foundation for Nature and Humanity - A Cuban non-governmental organization promoting environmental protection projects with an interest in the interaction of ecology, culture, and society.
www.cosg.supanet.com/fundacion.html
- Cienfuegos, the Capital of Urban Agriculture in Cuba - An agronomist, professor, and researcher at the University of Cienfuegos, Cuba, writes briefly of the development of urban agriculture in his city. Includes graphs and photos.
www.cityfarmer.org/cubacastro.html#castro
- Cuba Goes Green: Government-Run Vegetable Gardens Sprout in Cities Across Island - Details the state-sponsorship of urban agriculture in Cuba in response to the food crisis of the 1990s.
www.cityfarmer.org/CubaGreen.html#cubagreen
- Cuba's Environmental Law - A critique of Cuba's Law 33.
lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/asce/cuba5/FILE22.PDF
- Cuba: Going Against the Grain - A full-text report from Oxfam America on Cubas food crisis, agricultural reform, and dramatic adoption of large-scale organic agriculture.
www.oxfamamerica.org/cuba/index.html
- Cuban Agriculture - University of Florida study of the Cuban agriculture sector to assess economic implications of lifting the trade embargo.
www.cubanag.ifas.ufl.edu
- Food First: Cuba's New Agricultural Revolution - Full-text article on the transformation of Cuba's food production system, from a system of state farms to worker-controlled cooperatives.
www.foodfirst.org/pubs/devreps/dr14.html
- Green Cuba - An early article (1992) on Cuba's adoption of ecological development practices.
www.essential.org/monitor/hyper/issues/1992/11/mm1192_10.html
- Greening of Cuba - Full-text article from Earth Island Journal by Peter Rosset, an agricultural ecologist, executive director of Food First, and one of the leading experts on ecological farming in Cuba.
www.earthisland.org/journal/cuba.html
- Havana's Popular Gardens: Sustainable Urban Agriculture - Describes the growth of sustainable, urban agriculture to confront the food shortages of the 1990s.
www.cityfarmer.org/cuba.html#cuba
- Key Environmental Legislation for Cuba's Transition Period - An exploration of future options for Cuban environmental laws.
lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/asce/cuba9/travieso.pdf
- Property Rights, Technology, and Land Degradation: A Case Study of Santo Domingo, Cuba - An exploration of the relationship between land ownership, technology, and environmental degradation in revolutionary Cuba.
lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/asce/cuba7/saez.pdf
- Rio+5 Summary Report on Cuba - The Cuban Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment's report on the environment and development five years after the Earth Summit.
www.ecouncil.ac.cr/rio/natreg/americas/english/cub.htm
- Socialism and Environmental Disruption: Implications for Cuba - Another critique of the Cuban socialist development model from an ecological perspective.
lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/asce/cuba8/22diaz.pdf
- Soil Improvement Project - Highly technical report from a composting study on using biofertilizer, natural minerals, and organic residues to control pollution, recover degraded soil, and improve the substratum. By Dr. Pedro Cairo of Universidad Central de las Villas, Santa Clara, Villa Clara.
www.angelfire.com/scifi/Guillese/Proyecto.htm
- The Application of Deep Ecology in Cuba - A Deep Ecological perspective on contemporary Cuba.
trumpeter.athabascau.ca/content/v16.1/martin.html
- The Environment and the Cuban Transition - A critique of the Cuban socialist development model from an ecological perspective.
lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/asce/cuba7/diazbriq.pdf
- The Special Period and the Environment - Examines the ecological effects of the collapse of the Cuban economy in the 1990s.
lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/asce/cuba5/FILE23.PDF
- User Benefits of Urban Agriculture in Havana, Cuba - Complete MSc thesis (McGill University, December 2000) examining the benefits of urban agriculture in Havana.
www.cityfarmer.org/havanaBenefit.html#havanaCUBA
- Water, Development, and Environment in Cuba: A First Look - An examination of the relationship between water, development strategies, and ecological issues in revolutionary Cuba.
lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/asce/cuba3/briquets1.html
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