CUSAN connects people, institutions and movements in Cuba and the U.S. to build more ecologically resilient, socially just and economically fair food and farming systems through agroecology.
Support Food Sovereignty for Cuba
Urgent Fundraising Campaign
Urgent Fundraising Campaign
March 4, 2026
The recent tightening of U.S. sanctions, effectively imposing an oil blockade, has thrown Cuba into a severe energy crisis and a growing humanitarian emergency, accelerating hunger and malnutrition across Cuba.
UN experts have strongly condemned these measures, warning that they violate international law and will deepen the humanitarian crisis, particularly because Cuba’s health, food, and water systems depend heavily on imported fossil fuels. In response, UN agencies, several governments, and civil society organizations are mobilizing humanitarian assistance. The scale of the crisis demands sustained solidarity and cooperation beyond emergency food aid and towards strengthening sustainable local food systems.
Now more than ever, Cuban farming families need our support to build sustainable, low-carbon local food systems rooted in agroecology. At a moment of acute fuel scarcity, strengthening agroecological food systems is not only a matter of food access but also of climate resilience, autonomy, and survival. Boosting the capacity of urban and rural farmers to produce, preserve, and distribute food with limited reliance on fossil fuels is essential.
Funds raised will be used to resource and strengthen the capacity of family farmers in renewable energy and agroecological approaches to irrigate fields, power farm equipment, locally distribute harvests, and nourish local communities, economies, and ecologies.
If you represent an organization that works on agroecology, food sovereignty, and climate justice issues and would like to sign on as an organization to support this campaign, please fill out this form. As a supporter, you will help amplify the call for solidarity, mobilize resources, and affirm a shared commitment to defending the right of peoples to define and sustain their own food systems.
Supporting Organizations
The recent tightening of U.S. sanctions, effectively imposing an oil blockade, has thrown Cuba into a severe energy crisis and a growing humanitarian emergency, accelerating hunger and malnutrition across Cuba.
UN experts have strongly condemned these measures, warning that they violate international law and will deepen the humanitarian crisis, particularly because Cuba’s health, food, and water systems depend heavily on imported fossil fuels. In response, UN agencies, several governments, and civil society organizations are mobilizing humanitarian assistance. The scale of the crisis demands sustained solidarity and cooperation beyond emergency food aid and towards strengthening sustainable local food systems.
Now more than ever, Cuban farming families need our support to build sustainable, low-carbon local food systems rooted in agroecology. At a moment of acute fuel scarcity, strengthening agroecological food systems is not only a matter of food access but also of climate resilience, autonomy, and survival. Boosting the capacity of urban and rural farmers to produce, preserve, and distribute food with limited reliance on fossil fuels is essential.
Funds raised will be used to resource and strengthen the capacity of family farmers in renewable energy and agroecological approaches to irrigate fields, power farm equipment, locally distribute harvests, and nourish local communities, economies, and ecologies.
If you represent an organization that works on agroecology, food sovereignty, and climate justice issues and would like to sign on as an organization to support this campaign, please fill out this form. As a supporter, you will help amplify the call for solidarity, mobilize resources, and affirm a shared commitment to defending the right of peoples to define and sustain their own food systems.
Supporting Organizations
- 350 International Solidarity Working Group
- Another Gulf Is Possible Collaborative
- Caribbean Agroecology Institute
- Cuba-US Agroecology Network
- EFERT
- Familias Unidas por la Justicia
- Gulf of Mexico Youth Climate Summit
- Los Jardines Institute
- Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico
- Rural Vermont
- Tending Futures
- VAMOS PR