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A Cuban Success Story: Urban Agriculture

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  • Sinan Koont

    (Department of Economics, Dickinson College, P.O. Box 1773, Carlisle, PA 17013-2896, koont@dickinson.edu)

Abstract

The collapse of Soviet-style “industrial†agriculture in Cuba following the end of deliveries of agricultural machinery, spare parts, petroleum, and petroleum derivatives from COMECON countries at the beginning of the 1990s left Cuba face-to-face with a gigantic food security problem, as well as potential overall economic collapse. Urban Agriculture has emerged in Cuba as a very successful, if partial, solution to the food availability problem. The aim of this paper is to analyze the technological, political, historical, and economic underpinnings of this phenomenon in Cuba, and the extent to which the Cuban experience provides potential lessons to the rest of the world.

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  • Sinan Koont, 2008. "A Cuban Success Story: Urban Agriculture," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 40(3), pages 285-291, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:40:y:2008:i:3:p:285-291
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    1. Al Campbell, 2008. "The Cuban Economy: Data on Todays Performance and Information on Tomorrows Projected Changes," Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, University of Utah 2008_08, University of Utah, Department of Economics.

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