Resilience in Crisis: Cuba's Urban Farming Revolution and Lessons for Today

The Poor Prole’s Almanac

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4.9 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this episode, we're looking out how Cuba utilized both its massive state power and the creativity and bold thinking of its citizens to create decentralized urban farms after the collapse of the Soviet bloc. What can we learn about decentralized food systems and how can it be applied here in the case of collapse? Sources: https://www.cubaagriculture.com/agriculture-today.htm https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/36257629/the_urban_agriculture_of_havana.pdf?1421186242=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DThe_Urban_Agriculture_of_Havana.pdf&Expires=1610388059&Signature=cfYv5vuo9B~0~xnc7S3381ZDKFHpoWave4qc9ycca5RExKTGZlRWW3-a6nNMQ9zF13acafRgdB2zDujqeLHT3DcY49Y8rMGxYu0g5iwB4mwrslvZn1bqOUv76TAhthNd7AeHJXh7twSqjoApwssBwmGq6xHklRmb8qwXmmOG~4uveDPLRRVslHCNboCSHE6XSFVmjXHYbblQCUXRAYmhBMZ25WZ9w~K2Sw0JLIb1fvE-nDfe~E69MqXHU80FMZYqkYTugcl-hdZspTDwjU5mLj-flQf6ngPJ4qSRLB0ysSvSNcFlF3VmWQOe40s6VshmNhfTV7F9NVp7eAQl~Nnbcg__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA https://sagemagazine.org/urban-farm-fed-cities-lessons-from-cubas-organoponicos/ http://www.danangtimes.vn/Portals/0/Docs/310103714-urban_agriculture.pdf https://www.geotab.com/press-release/greenest-cities-in-america/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20results%20of,by%20Portland%20(856URBAN AGRICULTURE IN THE CITY OF HAVANA: A POPULAR RESPONSE TO A CRISIS%20ft2). https://www.geotab.com/press-release/greenest-cities-in-america/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20results%20of,by%20Portland%20(856%20ft2). https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/WLD/Year/LTST/TradeFlow/Import/Partner/by-country/Product/16-24_FoodProd#:~:text=In%202018%2C%20the%20top%20countries,%2C%20France%2C%20Netherlands%20and%20Italy https://web.archive.org/web/20061010120813/http://www.communitysolution.org/cubareviews.html

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