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A Cuban Success Story: Urban Agriculture

Department of Economics, Dickinson College, P.O. Box 1773, Carlisle, PA 17013-2896, koont{at}dickinson.edu

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.

Key Words: Cuba • urban agriculture • sustainable development

This version was published on September 1, 2008

Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 40, No. 3, 285-291 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0486613408320016


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