Sustainable agriculture and food security in an era of oil scarcity
Subtitle: lessons from Cuba
By: Julia Wright.
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; Sterling, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781844075720
Subjects: Sustainable agriculture -- Cuba; Agriculture and energy -- Cuba; Agriculture and state -- Cuba; Organic farming -- Cuba; Food supply -- Cuba
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cuba: providing the model for a post-petroleum food system?; title: Post petroleum food systems: transition and change; title: Researching Cuba; title: The historical context: Cuban agriculture and food systems of the twentieth century; title: Life after the crisis: the rise of urban agriculture; title: From dependency to greater self-reliance: transformation of the Cuban food system; title: Cuban food production in the 1990s: a patchwork of approaches; title: Institutional coping strategies: transition and decentralisation; title: Perspectives on the mainstreaming of local organic food systems; title: Lessons for the future: Cuba ten years on.