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​PUBLICATIONS BY YEAR

2022
  • ​Núñez Velis, Liliana, Pérez Rivero, Roberto, Saura Iglesias, Monica, Fernández Pérez, Margarita, Chen Glenda, Miller, Valerie (eds). Sustainable livelihoods in Cuba’s coastal zones: The challenge of achieving climate resilience in tourism, energy, fisheries, agriculture, and communities. 2022. Version en español
  • Machado, Mario and Fernandez, Margarita. This Cuban Town Has A Sustainability Lesson to Share: La Picadora's embrace of agroecology has fundamentally changed its landscape, both environmentally and economically. 2022 Orion Magazine.

2021
  • Pérez Consuegra, N. y Caballero Grande, R (coord.). 2021. Agroecología en Cuba - Iniciativas y evidencias innovadoras escalables. La Habana, FAO, MINAG y ACTAF. 
  • Cuba Informe Nacional Voluntario 2021 ODS
  • Blue, Sarah A., Amy Trauger, Hilda Kurtz, and Jason Dittmer. "Food sovereignty and property in Cuba and the United States." The Journal of Peasant Studies (2021): 1-18.
  • Álvarez, Anicia García, and Betsy Anaya Cruz. "Food Access in Cuba: Current Situation and Challenges." Social Policies and Institutional Reform in Post-COVID Cuba (2021): 117.
  • Vazquez, Luis. "Resiliencia de sistemas de produccion agropecuaria expuestos al huracan Irma en Cuba" Pastos y Forrajes (2021). 
  • Congressional Research Service. US Agricultural Trade with Cuba: Current Limitations and Future Prospects. 2021.
  • Co-innovacion en Red de Patios y Fincas Familiares Manejadas por Mujeres.

2020
  • Vasquez, Luis. 2020. La territorializacion de la produccion agroalimentaria sobre bases agroecologicas en Cuba: Un reforzamiento sostenible ante la crisis del COVID-19. Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Agrecologicas (CELIA). Link to article
  • Benítez, Barbara, Erin Nelson, María Isabel Romero Sarduy, Rodobaldo Ortíz Pérez, Anaisa Crespo Morales, Caridad Casanova Rodríguez, Maybe Campos Gómez et al. "Empowering Women and Building Sustainable Food Systems: A Case Study of Cuba's Local Agricultural Innovation Project." Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 4 (2020): 554414.
  • Funes Monzote, Fernando. La Metafora del Pozo: Proyecto Agroecologico Finca Marta. Organizacion de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentacion y la Agricultura. 2020.

2018
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene Special Feature: Cuba's Agrifood Systems in Transition, featuring 8 articles examining different aspects of Cuba's agriculture and food system. Link to articles.
  • Fernandez, Margarita, Justine Williams, Galia Figueroa, Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, Mario Machado, Luis Vazquez, Nilda Perez, Leidy Casimiro, Graciela Romero, and Fernando Funes-Aguilar. "New opportunities, new challenges: Harnessing Cuba’s advances in agroecology and sustainable agriculture in the context of changing relations with the United States." Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 6 (2018).

2017
  • Cuba Country Brief (Issue brief). (2017). World Food Programme. Link to brief
  • Fernandez, M. (2017). Urban Agriculture in Cuba: 30 years of policy and practice. Urban Agriculture Magazine, 33, 41-44. Link to article
  • Rosset, P. & Altieri, M. (2017). Agroecology: Science and Politics. Rugby, Warwickshire: Practical Action Publishing. Link to book summary and to purchase
  • Sabourin, E., [et al] (organizers) (2017). Políticas públicas a favor de la agroecología en América Latina y el Caribe (Rep.). Porto Alegre, Brasil: Red PP-AL: FAO. Link to document

2016
  • Altieri, M. (2016, March 25). Cuba's sustainable agriculture at risk in U.S. thaw. The Conversation. Retrieved from http://theconversation.com/cubas-sustainable-agriculture-at-risk-in-u-s-thaw-56773
  • Caridad Cruz, M. (2016). Agricultura urbana en América Latina y el Caribe: Casos concretos desde la mirada del buen vivir. Nueva Sociedad: Democracía y política en América Latina. Link to article
  • Cuba: su nueva revolución campesina. (2016). Biodiversidad: Sustento y Culturas. Link to special issue
  • Graddy-Lovelace, G. (2016). United States-Cuba Agricultural Relations and Agrarian Questions. Journal of Agrarian Change. Link to article
  • Prospects for U.S. Agribusiness in Cuba (Rep.). (2016). Washington, DC: Engage Cuba. Link to report
  • Memorias: Agroenergía para el desarrollo agrario sostenible. (2016). In IV Convención Internacional, Agrodesarrollo 2016. Matanzas, Cuba: Estación Experimental de Pastos y Forrajes Indio Hatuey. Link to publication -- (takes a long time to load)
  • Vásquez, L. (2016). Resiliencia a la sequía sobre bases agroecológicas: Sistematización de un proceso de coninnovación participativa. (Rep.). Guantánamo, Cuba. Link to report

2015
  • Cuba, Ministerio de la Agricultura (MINAG). (2015). Estrategía de género del sistema de la agricultura de Cuba 2015-2020. La Habana, Cuba. Link to document
  • United States, Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service. (2015). U.S. Agricultural Exports to Cuba Have Substantial Room for Growth (International Agricultural Trade Report). Link to report

2014
  • García Álvarez, M. E., Tejeda González, G., & Hernández Morales, C. A. (2014). Estudio de los factores críticos que inciden en el ciclo de la sostenibilidad alimentaria en Cuba (Tech.). La Habana, Cuba: Instituto de Investigaciones en Fruticultura Tropical (IIFT). Link to Report
  • The State of Food and Agriculture: Innovation in family farming (Rep.). (2014). Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Link to Report
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2013
  • Gamboa Costa, A., González Sousa, R., & Herrera Sorzano, A. (2013). Soberanía y seguridad alimentaria en Cuba: políticas públicas necesarias para reducir la dependencia alimentaria. Revista Agrisost, 19(3). Link to article
  • Garth, H. (2013). Food and identity in the Caribbean. London: Bloomsbury. Link to book summary and to purchase
  • Garth, H. (2013). Resistance and Household Food Consumption in Santiago de Cuba. Food Activism: Agency, Democracy and Economy, 47-60. Link to article
  • Machin Sosa, B., Roque Jaime, A. M., Avila Lozano, D. R., & Rosset, P. (2013). Agroecological Revolution: The Farmer-to-Farmer Movement of the ANAP in Cuba. La Habana, Cuba: Asociación Nacional de Agricultores Pequeños (ANAP). Link to PDF of book (English version)
  • Mulet Concepción, Y. (2013). Non-agricultural cooperatives in Cuba: A new way to unleash the forces of production? From the Island, (22). Link to article

2012
  • Altieri, M., & Funes-Monzote, F. (2012). The Paradox of Cuban Agriculture. Monthly Review, 63(8). Link to article
  • Cabello, J. J. [et al]. (2012). An approach to sustainable development: the case of Cuba. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 14(4), 573-591. Link to article
  • Schultz, R. (2012). Food Sovereignty and Cooperatives in Cuba's Socialism. Socialism and Democracy, 26(3), 117-138. Link to article
  • Wright, J. (2012). The little-studied success story of post-crisis food security in Cuba: Does lack of international interest signify a lack of political will? International Journal of Cuban Studies, 4(2), 130-153. Link to article

2011
  • Koont, S. (2011). Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. Link to book review
  • McCune, N. M. [et al]. (2011). Global Questions, Local Answers: Soil Management and Sustainable Intensification in Diverse Socioeconomic Contexts of Cuba. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 35(6), 650-670. Link to article
  • Rosset, P., Machín Sosa, B., Roque Jaime, A. M., & Ávila Lozano, D. R. (2011). The Campesino-to-Campesino agroecology movement of ANAP in Cuba: social process methodology in the construction of sustainable peasant agriculture and food sovereignty. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 38(1), 161-191. Link to article
  • Suárez, J. [et al]. (2011). Experiencias del proyecto BIOMAS-CUBA. Alternativas energéticas a partir de la biomasa en el medio rural cubano. Pastos y Forrajes, 34(4). Link to article

2010
  • Kilcher, L. (2010). Organic Agriculture in Cuba: Managing with Limited Resources (Rep.). Bonn, Germany: International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM). Link to report
  • Simón Reardón, J. A., & Alemán Perez, R. (2010). Agroecology and the Development of Indicators of Food Sovereignty in Cuban Food Systems. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 34(8), 907-922. Link to article

2009
  • Buchmann, C. (2009). Cuban Home Gardens and Their Role in Social–Ecological Resilience. Human Ecology, 37(705). Link to article
  • Funes Monzote, F. R., & Freyre Roach, E. F. (Eds.). (2009). Transgénicos ¿que se gana? ¿que se pierde?. textos para un debate en Cuba. La Habana: Publicaciones Acuario, Centro Félix Varela. Link to article
  • Funes Aguilar, F., & Funes Monzote, F. (2009). La Agroecología en Cuba: su Desarrollo y Situación Actual. Revista Brasileña de Agroecología, 4(2). Link to article
  • Garth, H. (2009). Things Became Scarce: Food availability and accessibility in Santiago de Cuba then and now. NAPA Bulletin, 32: 178–192. Link to article
  • Koont, S. (2009). The Urban Agriculture of Havana. Monthly Review, 60(8). Link to article
  • Nelson, E., Scott, S., Cukier, J., & Leyva Galan, A. (2009). Institutionalizing agroecology: successes and challenges in Cuba. Agriculture and Human Values, 26(3), 233-243. Link to article
  • Wright, J. (2009). Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity: Lessons from Cuba. Earthscan. Link to purchase

2007
  • Koont, S. (2007). Urban Agriculture in Cuba: Of, by and for the barrio. Nature, Society and Thought, 20(3-4), 311-326. Link to article
  • Messina, W., Bonnett, E., & Taylor, T. (2007). Cuba: A view of revealed export advantage. Link to article

2006
  • Holt-Giménez, E. (2006). Campesino a Campesino: Voices from Latin America’s Farmer to Farmer Movement for Sustainable Agriculture. Food First Books. Link to book summary and to purchase
  • Jiménez Guethón, R. (2006). Educación para la participación social en las Unidades Básicas de Producción Cooperativa (UBPC) (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Universidad de la Habana, Cuba. Link temporarily unavailable
2004
  • Kost, W. E. (2004). Cuban Agriculture: To be or not to be organic? Cuba in Transition, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, 14, 274-281. Link to article
  • Ross, J. E. (2004). Cuba: U.S. Agribusiness Export Prospects Under Three Scenarios. Cuba in Transition, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, 14, 369-380. Link to article
  • Royce, F. S. (2004). Agricultural Production Cooperatives: The Future of Cuban Agriculture? Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, 14(19), 19-53. Link to article
  • Royce, F. S. (2004). Agricultural Production Cooperatives in Cuba: Toward Sustainability. Cuba in Transition, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, 14, 254-273. Link to article

2003
  • Fertilizer use by crop in Cuba (Rep.). (2003). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Link to report

1999
  • Messina, W. A. (1999). Agricultural Reform in Cuba: Implications for agricultural production, markets and trade. Cuba in Transition, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, 9, 433-442. Link to article

1996
  • Messina, W. A., Jr., & Alvarez, J. (1996). Cuba's New Agricultural Cooperatives and Markets: Antecedents, Organization, Early Performance and Prospects. Cuba in Transition, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, 6(28), 175-195. Link to article
  • Messina, W. A., Jr., Spreen, T. H., Moseley, A. E., & Adams, C. M. (1996). Cuba's Non-sugar agriculture: Current situation and prospects. Cuba in Transition, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, 6(8), 16-22. Link to article

Year Unknown
  • Jiménez Guethón, R. M. (year unknown). Desarrollo local y cooperativas agrícolas en Cuba: logros y desafíos. Revista Africa América Latina, 46. Link to article

OTHER RESOURCES
  • The Schumacher Center for New Economics' online collection of lectures and publications

VIDEOS
  • Multimedia Peasant School: An audiovisual tool to scale up agroecology
  • Tierralismo: Good Earth Film Tour
  • The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
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  • The Soil Story

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