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News Archive

News and information about Cuba is often polarized, filled with misinformation or just difficult to access, especially that which is produced inside of Cuba. In an effort to help raise awareness and access to diverse sources of information about food, agriculture and environment issues in Cuba we collate, summarize, translate and share a monthly news brief that highlights news and events happening in Cuba.

February 2022

January 2022


December 2021

November 2021

October 2021

August & September 2021


June 2021

May 2021

April 2021

March 2021 

February 2021


January 2021 

December 2020

November 2020 

October 2020

September 2020 

August 2020 


​July 2020 

June 2020
  • Sortear la escasez
  • Chequea Machado Ventura produccion de alimentos en Cuba
  • Producir más alimentos y con mejores rendimientos tiene que ser una filosofía de trabajo
  • Firman Cuba y la FAO acuerdo para impulsar sistemas agroalimentarios más sostenibles
  • Mi reino por un boniato
  • Producción de arroz: prioridad de agricultores holguineros
  • Alianza estimula a producir más alimentos
  • La defensa biológica de la agricultura, más importante que nunca
  • Proyecto Local en Jesús Menéndez Fomenta la cria de cabras
  • Agencia japonesa dona equipos a Cuba para producción agrícola
  • Continúa protección del medio ambiente en Artemisa
  • Covid-19 y seguridad alimentaria: perspectivas cubanas
  • The pandemic, the environment and Cuba
  • Finca Marta: Proyecto Agroecológico que Ama y Funda
  • With pristine reefs at stake, Cuba bets on coral nurseries
  • Siembra de corales en Guanahacabibes ayuda a recuperar esos ecosistemas
  • Cuba’s clean rivers show the benefits of reducing nutrient pollution
  • Aplicación de las ciencias, elemental para el desarrollo agropecuario
  • ¿Cómo integrar los riesgos de la COVID-19 a las medidas de protección de la temporada ciclónica?
  • La juventud cubana está dando una prueba infinita de valor
  • Invierte provincia de Cuba para asegurar exportación de camarón
  • Aprueban norma contable para registrar gastos e ingresos ambientales
  • La moda de jaboncillo
  • Ecosistemas costeros, una mirada retrospectiva y de futuro
  • Alternativas del arroz ante déficit de fertilizantes químicos
  • Agroforestales tuneros, arrimados a buen árbol
  • ​ Cuba muestra resultados en programa contra la desertificación y la sequía
  • Cuba entre los 10 países más protectores del Medio Ambiente
  • Actores, desafíos y soberanía alimentaria y nutricional
  • ¿Producir todos los alimentos que necesitamos con la misma economía, las mismas estructuras y haciendo lo mismo? (II) Ser o No Ser
  • Rostros femeninos de la agricultura sostenible en Las Tunas

May 2020
  • Alianza de cooperativas mejora la respuesta del agro cubano
  • Agricultura: Urgen medidas descentralizadoras
  • Entregas a domicilio y grupos solidarios crecen en Cuba
  • Autoridades cubanas ponen en primero plano produción agrícola
  • Desafíos para Cuba en materia de producción alimentaria en tiempos de COVID-19
  • ¿Miel ecológica en Cuba? 
  • Washington fines agricultural company for selling food to Cuba without informing the government
  • Cuba denounces US food purchases under adverse conditions
  • Abrirá la primera planta de harina de yuca de Cuba
  • Un tanto a favor de la Agricultura Urbana, Suburbana y Familiar
  • Empresa de Vietnam dona 100 toneladas de arroz para médicos cubanos que luchan contra el coronavirus
  • Campesinado holguinero celebrará su día el 17 de mayo desde casa
  • Punto de venta de productos agropecuarios: experiencia que llegó para quedarse
  • La solidaridad y el esfuerzo de nuestros campesinos ponen límites a la COVID-19
  • Productora de miel en contramaestre y su clave del éxito
  • Industria conservera espirituana inicia zafra del mango
  • Destacan incremento de las producciones del sector campesino en Cienfuegos
  • La ciencia agropecuaria en función de la pandemia
  • ¿Cómo marchan las producciones de huevo y de carne de cerdo y pollo en el país?
  • De la papa a cultivos de ciclo corto en Ciego de Ávila
  • Cultivos de ciclo corto pisan los talones de la papa
  • Bandec disminuye tasas de interés a unidades productoras de alimentos y a agricultores
  • Renacer desde la tierra
  • Aumentar la producción de alimentos, una prioridad para Cuba
  • El robo de ganado, un mal innecesario

April 2020
  • Cuba en tiempos de coronavirus: la necesidad de un programa urgente de seguridad alimentaria
  • ​ Aplicación móvil garantiza envío de productos agrícolas en #LasTunas
  • Rodolfo, el cañero mayor de Aguada de Pasajeros
  • Científico cubano sueña una comunidad agraria sustentable
  • Sector agropecuario en Cuba, un desafío permanente
  • Consolidan en Las Tunas experiencias para la conservación de semillas
  • In Communist-run Cuba, the private sector helps the needy as coronavirus spreads
  • Comenzará a aplicarse a la población medicamento homeopático preventivo
  • Santiago de Cuba prioriza agricultura urbana en medio de pandemia
  • Marzo de 2020: El más seco en Cuba desde 1961
  • Del surco a la mesa: quitar trabas y trabadores de la producción de alimentos en Cuba
  • Mejor surtidas placitas de Ciego de Ávila
  • Cuba preserva sus áreas protegidas
  • Cuba Prioritizes Food Production During COVID-19 Outbreak
  • Cuba recibe 5 mil toneladas de arroz como regalo de Vietnam por el coronavirus
  • Solidarios por cuenta propia
  • Cuba hacia una nueva agricultura
  • Cuba abrirá tiendas online en CUP para la venta de alimentos, aseo y productos de primera necesidad
  • Marta Deus: 'Es momento de trabajar duro y reinventars'"
  • Eugenio y su siembra garbanzos
  • Trasplante mecanizado de arroz por primera vez en Pinar del Río
  • Mejoras en el priorizado programa del arroz
  • Cuban surfer Yaya Guerrero is making waves
  • Cuba's ration book stages comeback due to coronavirus pandemic
  • El campo es la tabla de salvación
  • Producción de alimentos, tarea de todos los días

March 2020
  • La Revolución cubana se siente orgullosa de sus campesinos
  • Permacultura, diseño para la sostenibilidad
  • Dispone Holguín de amplio potencial para crecer en la producción agrícola
  • 3 things Cuba can teach us about boosting climate resilience in agriculture
  • El llamado de los 'encadenamientos productivos'
  • Díaz-Canel chequea programa de gobierno para lograr la soberanía alimentaria del país
  • Green Climate Fund approves a $119 million climate resilient project for Cuba
  • Q&A: Paul Johnson, Chair, U.S. Agricultural Coalition for Cuba
  • Cuba faces squeeze on food production as US oil sanctions bite
  • Incentivan en Las Tunas el empleo de técnicas agroecológicas para producir alimentos
  • COVID-19 en Cuba: Medidas para garantizar la producción y comercialización de alimentos​

February 2020
  • In Cuba, Cleaner Rivers Follow Greener Farming
  • Finca agroecológica de Pinar del Río nominada a Premios Excelencia​
  • El crucigrama de los alimentos
  • Adoptan Estrategias En Las Tunas Para Evitar La Erosión De Playas Arenosas
  • Cuba’s rivers run clean after decades of sustainable farming
  • Shirkey and other Michigan lawmakers fly to Cuba, a potentially lucrative market for Michigan
  • Pinar del Río con la mira en las exportaciones
  • Soybean factory in Cuba to improve export to Mexico
  • Cuban fishermen will need authorization as of May
  • Destacado que hacer investigativo de meteorólogos en Las Tunas
  • Agricultura avileña oferta alimentos agroecológicos a la población
  • Logran plantas de canela en Jardín Botánico de Cienfuegos
  • Cuba's efforts for food safety highlighted in Rome
  • Campesinos reafirman compromiso con alimentos para el pueblo
  • Maisí: Water returns to La Punta
  • Autoabastecimiento alimentario: un asunto de seguridad nacional
  • Promueven turismo de naturaleza en Ciénaga de Zapata
  • ¿Cómo será la distribución de papa en Cuba?
  • Más de 10 proyectos ejecutados en Cuba para el cuidado medioambiental 
  • Cuba's Agro-Ecology Movement and What We Can Learn From It
  • Cuba increases export of tobacco products in 2019 by almost 10 million dollars
  • Exportará Cuba aceite de coco por primera vez
  • Meet The Couple Providing Accessible Wellness Resources for Afro-Cubans
  • Será en La Habana Taller sobre resiliencia costera
  • 'Tarea Vida': Legislando las Energías Renovables
  • Black Farmers in Cuba
  • Cuba emplea la energía de las olas para recuperar el ecosistema costero
  • Cuba enfrenta el cambio climático con responsabilidad y cooperación, asegura investigador

January 2020
  • La agricultura urbana en el autoabastecimiento alimentario
  • Cumanayagua marca pautas para el sistema de la Agricultura en Cuba
  • Campesinos por acompañar al país cuando más se necesita
  • President of Cuba attends international culinary event
  • Nominan a proyecto Costa Viva a premio internacional Energy Globe
  • Venta de calentadores solares para el sector residencial en Holguín
  • Campesinos de Ciego de Ávila pueden aportar más alimentos
  • Cuba Sabe 2020: entre el casabe criollo y la cocina gourmet“
  • La Tarea Vida integra acciones frente al cambio climático en Santa Lucía
  • Manos jóvenes que hacen producir la tierra
  • Convocan al Premio Provincial de Medio Ambiente 2020
  • Dunas de Playa Pilar se convierten en Área Protegida de Cuba
  • Cuba quiere convertir el casabe en alimento patrimonial
  • ¿Cómo avanza Cuba en los 17 Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible de la ONU?
  • Primera planta bioeléctrica de Cuba comienza fase de prueba
  • Región oriental cubana desarrolla turismo de naturaleza 
  • Contenedores de basura de Catar para escuelas de La Habana
  • Carbón de marabú afianza liderazgo en primer polo exportador agrícola de Cuba
  • Nuevo mapa hidrogeológico de Cuba facilitará manejo de más 100 reservas hídricas subterráneas
  • Mexican meat processing plant opens in Mariel
  • Envía Guantánamo su primera carga de limones para exportar

December 2019
  • ​Persisten problemas con abastecimiento del café en Cuba
  • Agricultores de Cuba por aumentar cosechas de todo lo que se pueda obtene
  • Activa participación de sociedad civil de Cuba en COP 25
  • Ecovalor: Ecosistemas Y Economía En Cuba
  • France to invest more than 7 million euros in agro-tourism and water in Cuba
  • Oxen and horses put back to work in Cuba
  • Disponen productores de granos de Holguín de nuevas tecnologías en sistemas de regadíos
  • Implementing system change through Agroecology: The Cuban experience
  • Ministro de Agricultura: Cuba trabaja por alcanzar seguridad alimentaria
  • Camarones cubanos llegarán a China en 2020
  • Grain drying plant ready to start operations in Cuba
  • Cuba's first biomass power plant to start operating in January
  • Cuba strengthened its sugar diversification in 2019​

November 2019
  • Cubanos se unen para limpiar el Malecón de La Habana
  • CITMA regala a la ciudad pantallas con mensajes ambientales
  • Cuba’s Urban Farming Shows Way to Avoid Hunger​
  • Economía Circular en Festival de la Tierra
  • Concluyó Encuentro Internacional de Agroecología, Agricultura Sostenible y Cooperativismo
  • Reconocen en Cuba trabajos para el manejo sostenible de tierras
  • Cuba and Vietnam Join Forces for Rice Production
  • Cubanos podrán generar su propia electricidad y venderle al gobierno
  • Cuba works to boost renewable energy by 2030
  • Cuba found to be the most sustainably developed country in the world, new research finds
  • Cosecha Cafetalera Y Zafra Azucarera: Prioridades Del Sector Cooperativo Campesino​

October 2019
  • Cuba cría «guppies» como control del mosquito transmisor del dengue
  • Como influye en el calendario de siembra el cambio climatico
  • Campesinos Tuneros asumen estrategias ante déficit de fertilizantes
  • Curso sobre biodigestores abre en Cuba XI Encuentro de la RedBioLAC
  • ​Declaran la cocina cubana Patrimonio Cultural de la nación
  • The plan for Cuba’s renewable energy sources
  • ​Microorganismos eficientes incrementan rendimiento agrícola en Cuba

September 2019
  • Managing coastal ecosystems
  • New Cuban-made equipment for rice production
  • ¿Cómo Cuba preserva sus bosques?
  • Cuba Sends Doctors & Teachers to Hurricane Hit Bahamas
  • Inauguran moderna estación meteorológica en Zona Especial de Desarrollo Mariel
  • Sector agrícola estadounidense y cubano mantienen el acercamiento
  • FAO expert highlights Cuba's experiences in land management
  • Cienfuegos: Nueva mini industria de alimentos producirá una tonelada diaria
  • Ocho historias de cubanas en resiliencia
  • Cuba and the U.S. can only solve shared conservation challenges by working together
  • Reforestation: Cuba leads the way
  • Atajos de la agricultura ante estrecheces energéticas
  • La agricultura en Cuba: no empata el palo y la chambelona
  • Cubanos unidos contra el cambio climático
  • ​La Melissa, una finca cubana sobre ruedas
  • Díaz-Canel visita Mercado de la Tierra en finca privada

August 2019
  • Instalarán en Las Tunas planta productora de bioestimulantes
  • Building Ag Trade With Cuba Is A Long Road
  • ​Cooperative in Cuba turns plastic waste into lumber
  • Siembran mangle en Caimanera
  • Cuba drastically reforms fishing laws to protect coral reef, sharks and rays
  • Invasión de sargazos en la costa más occidental de Cuba
  • Agricultural sales to Cuba torn between credits and global dynamics
  • Using waste from rice processing to generate energy
  • Invasive plant species in Cuba take their toll

July 2019
  • Cuba on a greener path with new 10MW solar power plant
  • Cuba Highlights Work with FAO to Boost Agricultural Projects
  • Otro mundo es posible: qué tiene Cuba para enseñarnos sobre la agroecología
  • Matanzas debe intensificar siembra de yuca, plátano y malanga
  • Tarea Vida, propósito del sector del Comercio y la Gastronomía en Matanzas
  • Cuban farmer feeds hunger for better way of life
  • Cuba's tobacco farmers try to shake off state shackles
  • Sustainability is on the Hook as Cuba Adopts New Fisheries Law, EDF Says
  • U.S. Senator Tina Smith Again Calls on Top Trade and Foreign Agriculture Official to Provide Clear Answers on Effects Trade Restrictions on Cuba are Having on Minnesota, Nation
​
June 2019
  • Cuba Hopes A Catfish Will Solve Its Food Crisis. But Is It Wrecking The Island's Ecosystem?
  • Comercio Interior: Disponibilidad de productos para el mes de junio en bodegas y mercados estatales
  • Cooperativa cubana transforma desechos plásticos en ecomadera
  • Cuba se suma al Desafío de Bonn
  • UN Praises Cuba as Model for Sustainable Policies
  • Harvesting honey becomes big business in Cuba
  • Ambientalistas de Cuba cuidan el océano con limpieza y reciclaje
  • Mapa Joven para la transformación social y medioambiental en Cuba
  • Agricultura en Pinar del Río, por el uso de prácticas agroecológicas
  • Proyecto crea las bases para la certificación agroecológica en Cuba
  • Water Collection and other Innovations at a Small Havana Farm
  • Concluye en Cuba congreso de campesinos latinoamericanos
​
May 2019
  • Díaz-Canel llama a integrar la ciencia a la fuerza productiva de Cuba
  • Alternative medicine blooms in Cuba
  • Permacultores de Palma Soriano saludan aniversario 25 de la Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez para la Naturaleza y el Hombre
  • Cuba to ration more products due to economic crisis, U.S. sanction
  • Medidas con el propósito de una distribución justa en el mercado interno
  • Cuba empieza a exportar mangos frescos a Europa
  • U.S. Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Help Farmers Export to Cuba
  • Debaten especialistas en Camagüey sobre la preparación ciudadana ante eventos climáticos
  • Los pueblos que se traga el mar
  • New Rule Provides More Autonomy to Cuban Agricultural Sector
  • Inversión extranjera, exportaciones y desarrollo por el camino de la proactividad
  • Cuba comienza a producir cemento ecológico
  • En plena escasez de alimentos, Cuba anuncia nuevos mercados para venta mayorista
  • Una bicicletada en La Habana contra el cambio climático
  • ¿Se estabiliza la producción de huevos en el país?
  • Aumento de nivel del mar en Cuba será mayor que lo previsto
  • Trump crackdown may have thrown wrench into U.S.-Cuba food trade
  • Cuba/US scientific cooperation declines under Trump
  • Harina argentina para el pan cubano

April 2019
  • Cuba y EEUU cooperarán en conservación de la flora y jardines botánicos
  • Presentará Cuba primer informe voluntario sobre desarrollo sostenible
  • Reconoce Díaz-Canel resultados de la Tarea Vida en Camagüey
  • ​Cuba predicts more wildfires due to climate change
  • Acciones de la Tarea Vida en Humedal del Norte
  • Presidenta de la ONU insta a Cuba a continuar mecanismos de enfrentamiento al Cambio Climático
  • Empieza cuenta regresiva para autonomía municipal en Cuba
  • Cuba's worker bees boost thriving honey business
  • Ostrich, rodent on the menu as Cuba seeks food miracle
  • Exhorta Díaz-Canel a revitalizar métodos y estilos de trabajo
  • Cuba con condiciones para desarrollar medicina natural y tradicional
  • Cuba bets on boosting local food production
  • Importaciones de Cuba, cruciales para abastecimiento, se complican por deudas
  • Q&A: Leidy Casimiro Rodriguez, Cuba’s Agroecology Queen​
  • Cuba and Europe NGOs Share Experiences of Sustainable Development
  • Food reveals complicated, contentious Cuban-American politics
  • Pequeñas industrias de alimentos reaniman municipios cubanos
  • Food Shortages in Cuba Are Raising Fears of a New Economic Crisis
  • Paraguay podría aumentar venta de carne a Cuba
  • Iniciativas ambientales en Cuba: algo para recordar en el Día de la Tierra
  • Agricultural development must continue under all circumstances
  • ​The secret of prosperity

March 2019
  • El presidente de Cuba reconoce la escasez de alimentos y pide más control
  • Cuba turns to sun to cut reliance on fossil fuels
  • Cuba paving way to the green revolution
  • Unique features of Cuba’s wind farms
  • Cuba acknowledges climate change threats in its constitution
  • Cuba fulfills sugar exports despite difficult harvest
  • Cuba's Agro-Ecology Movement and What We Can Learn From It
  • Desarrollo local, promoción con enfoque de género desde la comunicación en Las Tunas
  • Crecen expectativas en Cuba por evento de naturaleza
  • Recogieron 680 kilogramos: el TrashChallenge continúa en La Habana
  • Clima cubano será más cálido y seco
  • El príncipe Carlos visita Finca Marta, una finca de alimentos orgánicos en La Habana
  • U.S. Members of Congress Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Help Farmers Export to Cuba
  • #TrashChallenge en Cuba: mira lo que hacemos con Internet

February 2019
  • Cuba reconoce falta de alimento avícola en medio de escasez de huevos
  • Arkansa sees path for Cuba trade bill; Crawford measure stalled in past, but key dissenters have since departed
  • Explore Cuba's Unique And Fascinating Wildlife On The Island Of Cayo Coco
  • Cuban Food Stories Documentary Serves Up A Slice Of Life Through Food
  • Culmina en Cuba proyecto de la UE para impulsar producción y cultura del cacao
  • 'Empresa española de alimentación comienza operaciones en zona especial de Mariel
  • Ag businesses warn Trump administration about Title III
  • Cuba refuerza el uso eficiente de las energías renovables
  • Cuba's tobacco growers confront climate change
  • ‘Campesino’ explores Cuba’s proud farming traditions

January 2019
  • Cuba atenta a vulnerabilidades ante cambio climático
  • Cuba Trade and Arkansas Farmers: What's Next?
  • Local Innovation Facilitates Solidarity-Based Biogas Networks in Cuba
  • La revolución agroecológica de Casimiro
  • Del arroz en barco al arroz que cultivamos
  • A 60 años del Triunfo: La agricultura cubana y su apremiante despegue
  • Japón envía 24 camiones a La Habana para la recogida de basura
  • La aventura de los platos verdes en Cuba
  • Nuevos parques eólicos en proceso inversionista
  • Elaboran nuevo Atlas Nacional de Cuba

December 2018​
  • In Cuba, more rations and less potatoes
  • What if “Sustainable Agriculture” Weren’t Theoretical? The Case of Cuba
  • US Cuba Lobby Celebrates a Farm Bill Win Despite Worsening Ties
  • U.S. Congress approves agricultural legislation with amendment on Cuba
  • Farm bill’s expansion of trade opportunities between the US and Cuba historic and mutually beneficial
  • ​​Cuba sees sugar recovery, more exports, after bitter harvest
  • Farm Bill provision to open doors to Arkansas crop trade in Cuba

November 2018
  • Cuban industries benefit from foreign investment
  • Cuba denounces impact of US Blockade in academic exchange
  • American farmers need the Cuban Market
  • Meeting highlights the potential for environmental cooperation between Cuba and Japan
  • US agribusiness looks to boost sales to Cuba
  • Mexico's Endangered Sting-less Bees Mysteriously Find A Sweeter Home In Cuba
  • Indio Hatuey present at the first Earth Festival
  • Cuba’s Only Semiarid Region Reinvents Agriculture to Survive
  • Cuba and the EU review current status and prospects for cooperation
  • Cuban advances in food security highlighted in regional event
  • Tropical biodigestors, an alternative for Cuba
  • Spain signs pre-agreement to supply 400,000 fresh chickens to Cuba every week
  • Cuba and its strategies for good nutrition
  • Havana inaugurates public bicycle rental services
  • Trump Administration Policies Could Threaten Cuban Biosecurity

October 2018
  • Cuba to Build Renewable Energy Farms with Indian Assistance
  • Cuba will start its sugar harvest next November
  • Why is Cuba having the healthiest bees?
  • U.S. Agriculture coalition pushes for next conference to expand Cuba trade: Cuba looking to increase agriculture trade and investment
  • Hurricane Michael causes some destruction in western Cuba: Pinar del Rio is province most affected by storm, authorities say
  • ​Cuba: World Food Day with Goals Accomplished
  • U.S., Cuban marine biologists put an end to ‘academic embargo
  • Cuba Fosters the Use of Zeolite
  • Bitter taste for Cuba as it imports sugar for the first time
  • Cuba aims higher for coming sugar harvest

September 2018
  • Diaz-Canel holds meetings with representatives of the US agricultural sector
  • Cuba, mayor experiencia mundial de agricultura urbana, dice FAO
  • Little appetite for effort to bolster ag trade with Cuba
  • The road to restoration: Cuba’s modern farming revolution
  • Cuban agriculture faces another hard year as produce sales drop
  • ¿Cuáles son los principales cambios en la entrega de tierras en usufructo con el nuevo Decreto-Ley?

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
    ​​
February 2016
  • 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
  • U.S. companies looking to export fertilizers to Cuba

March 2015
  • Why Energy Investors are Looking at the Caribbean
  • Can The US-Cuba Honeymoon Last?​
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