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January 2017
- U.S. farmers ask Trump to stay the course on Cuba
- Is the U.S. Opening to Cuba Dead in the Water?
- Cuba’s Raul Castro meets with U.S. Chamber of Commerce president
- Obama Ends Exemption for Cubans Who Arrive Without Visas
- If There Are No New Farmers, Who Will Grow Our Food?
- Cuba’s Budding Private Sector Looks Nervously to Future
- Modern agriculture cultivates climate change – we must nurture biodiversity
- Artisanal marabu charcoal to become 1st Cuban export to US
- Cuba's Santeria priests forecast prosperity in New Year's prophesy
- Carbón vegetal: primer producto que exportará Cuba a EEUU en más de 50 años
December 2016
- First map of smallholder farms in the developing world: They produce more than half the planet’s food calories
- Cuba and the United States sign a Memorandum of Understanding on Wildlife Conservation and Terrestrial Protected Areas
- Agroecólogo cubano propone alternativas al uso de los pesticidas durante la COP 13
- Cultivos transgénicos para la sostenibilidad alimentaria
- New Cuba reform allows farmers to hire workers directly
- Comic book: Together we can cool the planet! Historieta ¡Juntos podemos enfriar el planeta!
- After a Century In Decline, Black Farmers Are Back And On the Rise
- Klobuchar, Emmer urge Trump to keep Obama's Cuba policies
- Cuba reaffirms willingness to continue working to improve relations with the United States
- Cuba wants to sign accords with U.S. before Obama exit: officials
- U.S. lawmakers, Cuban business owners urge Trump to preserve detente
- Cuba-Trained Doctors Head to Standing Rock
- Oficina Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe: II Seminario Regional sobre Agroecología en América Latina y el Caribe
November 2016
- Trump’s Choice on Cuba
- After Surviving 600 Assassination Attempts & Outlasting 11 U.S. Presidents, Fidel Castro Dies at 90
- Trump aides threaten hard line as Cuba steps into the unknown
- Outspoken Critic of President Obama's Cuba Policies Named to President-Elect Trump's Transition Team
- American Museum of Natural History’s Cuba exhibit explores culture, biodiversity
- The number of U.S. trademark registrations in Cuba is multiplying — fast
- Business or Politics? What Trump Means for Cuba
- Trump, Pence seek Cuban American vote, vow to repeal Obama's Cuba deal
- A Trump attempt to reverse Obama’s Cuba policies could be complicated and costly
- Cuba Rejects Ballyhooed Plan For A U.S. Factory On The Island
- Excluyen a empresa de tractores estadounidense de proyectos del Mariel
- How Cuba Plans to Speed Up Its Lagging Foreign Investment Drive
- The Latest U.S. Shift on Cuba Policy is About Far More Than Rum and Cigars
- Cuban science: A sword and shield against the blockade
- Cuba in All Its Natural Glory at the American Museum of Natural History
- Cuba’s Fish Farming Industry Seeks to Double Output by 2030
October 2016
- Normalization of Relations With Cuba Is All But Irreversible Now
- Cuba's Sustainable Agro-Ecological Model Could Save the World
- No, giant farms are not feeding the world. They’re feeding Canada.
- Agroecología: ¿utopía para un sistema agroalimentario justo?
- A New Cuba
- Agrichemicals and ever more intensive farming will not feed the world
- US poultry and egg leaders ‘fact-find’ in Cuba
- Nothing Trumps Sovereignty
- Can Cuban science go global?
- Collaboration for agricultural development
September 2016
- Cuba's Future Looks Sunny and Green with Solar Power
- A Manhattan Museum Looks at Cuba's Exotic Flora and Fauna
- Cuba: Time to Move Ahead with Reforms
- Why Do Americans Find Cuba Sexy — but Not Puerto Rico?
- Collaboration for agricultural development
- Neighbors Question Cuba Migration Policy
- The Roots of Black Agrarianism
- Agriculture needs a makeover to lure young people back to farming
August 2016
- Harlem/Havana festival celebrates a shared cultural history with Cuba, paused by embargo
- In Cuba: Against Life
- Soil, Struggle and Justice
- Cashing in on Cuba: Why the U.S. tourism industry
isn’t waiting for Congress to lift the embargo - El Bloqueo: The Cuban embargo continues
- Bridges to Cuba
- Agroecology and Industrial Farming: Leveling the Playing Field
- First U.S.-Cuba Commercial Flight In More Than 50 Years Has Landed
- Descubre cómo un agrónomo dejó la teoría y logró una de las tierras más productivas
- Cuba celebrates Fidel Castro's 90th birthday
- The Cuba-Venezuela Oil Relationship
- A farm/restaurant offers insights into Cuba's food system
- When Revolution Came to the Kitchens of Cuba
- It's Time for a New Economics
July 2016
- Poverty Doesn’t Stop Cuba From Keeping Its Black Citizens Healthy.
- Mid-Atlantic Regional Agroecology Encounter
- Amid Grim Economic Forecasts, Cubans Fear a Return to Darker Times
- Arguing Over Cuba
- Cuban Agriculture Seeks Strategies Facing Climate Change's Effect
- Urban farming returning Detroit to its roots, but not without challenges
- Study: Cubans don’t make much, but it’s more than state salaries indicate
- A Rush of Americans, Seeking Gold in Cuban Soil
- How to Revive Local Agriculture in the United States
- Ben & Jerry’s, Fidel & Patrick’s ‘Blockade Buster’ Ice Cream Diplomacy?
- El Bloqueo: The Cuban embargo continues
June 2016
- Cooperatives helping to revive Cuban industry
- Cuba Warns of Energy Problems, Cuts Some Work Hours
- Texas ag embraces trade with Cuba
- Castro admits Cubans face hard times as economy slows sharply
- LatAm In Focus: Josefina Vidal on a Changing Cuba
- Scott: Another view of Cuba
- Hipster Colonialism and the ‘Ruin’ of Cuba
- Far From Silicon Valley, Cuba Cultivates Startup Scene
- Las Terrazas: An Entire Village in Cuba Dedicated to Sustainability
- Vilsack: U.S. Relationship With Cuba Begins With Agriculture
- Farming for a Small Planet: Agroecology Now
- Cuba: The Big Change
May 2016
- Cuba loosens Communist control of some restaurant cooperatives
- Inside the Race to Save Cuba’s Coral Reefs
- Farming Could Spell Disaster for Cuba’s Coral Reefs
- Cuba, US 'have to learn from each other,' Cuban ag minister says
- PF government unwittingly signed away Zambian farmers rights to their seeds: A call to protect Farmers rights
- Cuba to legalize small and medium-sized private businesses
- An Agro-Ecological Way Through the Sugarcane Problem – Before We Quickly Resort to GM Crops
- Why Cuba is an education success story and what it can teach Africa
- Caribbean neighbors Cuba and Puerto Rico wonder who really won cold war
- Cuba in January: Four Students, One Professor and a Complex Food System
- Drought continues to affect Cuba
- Fidel Castro bids farewell to Cuba’s Communist party congress
- Can smart cities grow food the smart way?
April 2016
- Ten Questions with Karen Washington, Co-Owner of Rise and Root Farm
- Why US-Cuba Relations Won’t End Cuba’s Alternative Agriculture Movement
- Alabama company says Cuba needs its tractors,
but approval process is slow - Cuba’s sustainable agriculture at risk in U.S. thaw
- What, Reserve a Table? Cubans Confront a New Dining Culture
- The Promise of Urban Agriculture
- Cleber tractors, engines of change between Cuba and the United States
- Agriculture and Food Systems Fellowship Looks at
Parallels Between Cuba and Vermont - Can Cuba Supply America’s Growing Appetite for Organic Food?
- Worker Cooperatives Are More Productive Than Normal Companies
- Congressmen heading to Cuba to forge agriculture ties
- Cuba's Organic Revolution: Coming to Your Fridge?
- Cuba's New Threat Could be U.S. GMOs
- The Business Case for a Sustainable Cuba Part One
- The Business Case for a Sustainable Cuba Part Two
- Call for articles: Measuring the impact of agroecology
- U.S. companies make case for keeping Cuba organic
- Slow Meat in Cuba
March 2016
- Black farmers in Detroit are growing their own food.
But they're having trouble owning the land - The US has a lot to learn from Cuba about sustainable agriculture
- Will Obama's visit boost US-Cuba ag trade?
- Cuba may aid Iowa farmers
- The Future of Farming
- Culture Gap Impedes U.S. Business Efforts for Trade With Cuba
- Why Obama’s visit to Cuba is groundbreaking
- Obama Lands in Cuba With a Pledge to Listen to Its People
- US Lifting Trade Embargo With Cuba Could Save
Millions of Lives — And a Few Legs, Too - Florida cattleman recalls Ramón Castro’s role in Cuba agriculture
- Listen Up, America: Don't Get Cuba Wrong Again
- First U.S. Factory OK'd For Cuba Aims To Plow A Path Into 21st Century
- White House Eases More Restrictions on Travel to Cuba
- Publishing Heavyweights Petition White House,
Congress To End Cuba Book Embargo - Another 1 million acres of farmland, gone
- Successful Farming Goes to Cuba
- Seven Projects Protecting Soils Around the World
- Like the Last President to Visit Cuba, Obama Seeks a Change
- D.C. looks to communist Cuba for lessons to improve literacy
- Stunning Photos Reveal Cuba's Softer Side
- Corporate vision of the future of food promoted at the UN
- President Obama Plans Historic Trip to Cuba
- Diplo and Major Lazer Bring Their Brand of Music to Cuba
- University of Iowa eyes Cuban study
- America, meet Cuba
- Cuba for Sale
- Stay or Go? Cuban Entrepreneurs Divided on Where to Stake Futures
- Ending Cuba embargo offers opportunities for Louisiana farm, petrochem and tourism industries, coalition says
- Cuba Detects First Case of Zika Virus
- Rolling Stones to play Havana at Easter
- In Cuba, Echoes of the Past Resound for a Photographer From the Former Soviet Bloc
- Women forging change with agroecology
- The Biotech Corporate Vision: Genetically Engineered Crops, Transgenic Seeds, Demise of Agroecology
- Call for Articles: Valuing Underutilised Crops
- Commercial Travel Between Cuba & U.S. To Resume
- Hola, Cuba! It's Hollywood Calling
- U.S. OK's First Factory in Cuba Since Revolution
- Organic honey is a sweet success for Cuba as other bee populations suffer
- What Do Cubans Think of Normalization With the United States?
- The Best Growth Story in Cuba
Will Be Agriculture - Cuba Struggles to Feed Itself as Lack of Cash Slows Rise of Urban Farming
- Cuba for sale: ‘Havana is now the big cake ...everyone is trying to get a slice’
- What happened when an iconic New Orleans jazz band traveled to Cuba
- Where to find the best food in Cuba
- Ending Machismo in Cuban Agriculture
January 2016
- A busy first year for CUSAN
- Int’l farm groups meet in Cuba, discuss gains of revolution
- What Can We Learn from Cuba About Farming?
- 36 Hours in Havana
- Conway woman tours farms in Cuba
- Obama at SOTU: "End the Embargo"
- In Cuba, Haiti it’s organic farming by necessity
- In a reversal, Cuba tries price controls to tame food inflation
- U.S. approves granting of credit to Cuba
- Georgia eyes Cuba for expanding poultry market
- After unusual weather, Cuba struggles to save prized tobacco crop
December 2015
- Peasant agriculture-a true solution to climate crisis
- The Toxic Agriculture of Monsanto and Big Agribusiness vs Agroecology Rooted in Communities and Locally Owned
- COP21: Social movements and allies call for transformation of food systems
- Farmer to Farmer Learning Materials for Agroecology
- 15 Minutes with USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack
- Cuba: Declaración final del V Encuentro Internacional de Agroecología
- A New Cuban Exodus
- The Charismatic Gardener Whose Giving Is Inspiring
Future Community Activists - Business potential of smallholder farmers must be unleashed for sustainable development, report says
- Are Cooperatives Dangerous for Cuba?
- Making Fijian Farmers Healthier and Wealthier
- Cuba and Iran, Melancholy Twins
November 2015
- Activist scientists condemn USDA for not supporting agroecology
- Latin America to Push for Food Security Laws as a Bloc
- Food industry focuses on sustainable sourcing to mitigate climate change
- Iowa’s Climate-Change Wisdom
- An International Farmers Alliance Links Climate Change to Industrial Agriculture
October 2015
- U.S. blockade causes multi-million sum damages to Cuban agriculture
- Cuba has been more than an active collaborator
September 2015
- Connecting Over Soil
- Here's why industrial food is deceivingly cheap
- Cuban Agroecological Project Foments Local Innovation
- Agroecology is Working – But We Need Examples to Inspire Others
- New Toolkit Works To Improve Resilience of Latin American Farmers
- Agroecology Rebuilds Rural Livelihoods of Women in Post-Earthquake Nepal
- I Visited Cuba's Farms and It Made Me Rethink Obama's Rapprochement
August 2015
- An arugula-growing farmer feeds a culinary revolution in Cuba
- U.S.-Cuba Agricultural Trade: Past, Present, and Possible Future
- Cuba Suffers Through The Worst Drought Of 'The Last Century'
- International Peasant Group Warns About 'Commercial Agroecology'
- Agroecology as a Tool for Liberation: Transforming Industrial Agribusiness in El Salvador
- Vermont Law School Joins Cuba-U.S. agriculture initiative
July 2015
- Cuba Could Become Viable Trading Partner with Texas Producers
- Announcing Cuba Embassy Deal, Obama Declares 'New Chapter'
- Cuba's Environmental Concerns Grow With Prospect of US Presence
June 2015
- Here's what better relations with the US mean for city farms in Cuba
- Alabama tractor company wants to set up shop in Cuba
- How women farmers in the Andes use their knowledge to conserve biodiversity
- What Cuba can teach American about organic farming
- Organic Farming Flourishes in Cuba, But Can It Survive Entry of U.S. Agribusiness?
May 2015
- In a post-embargo era, Cuba serves as a model for marine protection
- Puerto Rico Is Sowing A New Generation Of Small Farmers
- Analysis: Just ahead - Cuba's cooperative groundswell
- Is Cuba the future of farming?
- California Drought Could Upend America's Entire Food System
April 2015
March 2015