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Cuba's national food program and its prospects for food security

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Cuba's National Food Program aims to assure its population a minimum degree of food security during the current period of transition from dependency upon the ex-Socialist trading bloc. A number of important elements of the Food Program, however, were conceived before the demise of COMECON in an effort to deepen food import substitution. This paper reviews the degree of Cuba's food import dependence before the breakup of the Socialist bloc, the initial targets of the National Food Program, and how these have been modified due to the severe reduction in Cuba's normal level of imports of petroleum and other agricultural inputs. It is argued that Cuba's reliance upon scientific advances combined with a return to traditional, ecologically-benign agricultural practices and large-scale labor mobilizations have allowed it to overcome a drastic shortfall in production as a result of the reduced level of imports of modern agricultural inputs. At the same time, it has been exceedingly difficult for the country to maintain production levels at the trend of the late 1980s or to continue to aspire to meet the ambitious targets of the initial Food Program plan. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1993

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  • Carmen Deere, 1993. "Cuba's national food program and its prospects for food security," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 10(3), pages 35-51, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:agrhuv:v:10:y:1993:i:3:p:35-51
    DOI: 10.1007/BF02217839
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    1. Meurs, Mieke, 1992. "Popular participation and central planning in Cuban socialism: The experience of agriculture in the 1980s," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 20(2), pages 229-240, February.
    2. Deere, Carmen Diana & Meurs, Mieke, 1992. "Markets, markets everywhere? Understanding the Cuban anomaly," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 20(6), pages 825-839, June.
    3. Deere, C.D., 1992. "Socialism on one island? : Cuba's national food program and its prospects for food security," ISS Working Papers - General Series 18824, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), The Hague.
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