CUSAN is made up of farmers, NGOs, academics and philanthropists who have come together to support Cuba’s agroecology movement. CUSAN is coordinated by the Caribbean Agroecology Institute, which partners with a diverse range of Cuban and US institutions to implement programming.
Constituents of the network
Agricultural Justice Project | Vanya Goldberg American University School of International Service | Garrett Graddy-Lovelace Americas Media Initiative | Alexandra Halkin Annals of Earth | Nancy Jack Todd The Berry Center | Mary Berry Bionutrient Food Association | Dan Kittredge Blue Planet Consulting | Henry Gordon-Smith Center for Environmental Farming Systems / North Carolina State University | Nancy Creamer CODEPINK | Jodie Evans Coffee Trust | Bill Fishbein Conservation Law Foundation |Peter Shelley Conway School of Landscape Design | Paul Cawood Hellmund Eco Cuba Network | Pamela Montanaro Environmental Defense Fund | Daniel Whittle Experimental Farm Network | Nate Kleinman and Dusty Hinz Fair Food Network | Oran Hesterman Family Farm Defenders | John Peck Farm Hack: An Open Source Community For Resilient Agriculture | Dorn Cox Finca Los Mangos Project | Lauren Hibbard and Yoel Trujillo Food First | Eric Holt-Giménez Gardener's Supply Company and Intervale Center| Will Raap Glynwood | Dave Llewellyn Hawthorne Valley Farm | Martin Ping Healthy Living Market and Café | Nicole Driscoll John Todd Ecological Design | John Todd Maestra Film | Catherine Murphy Middlebury College | Molly Anderson National Center for Appropriate Technology | Robert Maggiani National Cooperative Business Association | Amy E. Coughenour Betancourt Natural Capital Solutions | Hunter Lovins Public Market Development | Aaron Pohl-Zaretsky Remineralize The Earth | Joanna Campe Rise & Root Farm | Karen Washington Sequestering Carbon, Accelerating Local Economies (SCALE) | Anthony Flaccavento Schumacher Center for a New Economics | Susan Witt* Slow Food USA | Richard McCarthy Soil4Climate | Seth Itzkan SOL² Economics | Eric Leenson* Southeastern African American Farmers' Organic Network | Tamara Jones Tufts University Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning | Penn Loh University of Massachusetts Urban Agriculture and Nutrition Program | Frank Mangan University of New Hampshire Sustainability Institute | Tom Kelly University of New Mexico-Gallup Heritage Farming Project | Warner Orozco-Obando Urban Farming Institute | Glynn Lloyd Vermont Caribbean Institute | Margarita Fernandez* Vermont Law School, Center for Agriculture and Food Systems | Laurie Ristino Vida Verde | Seth Matlick W.K. Kellogg Foundation | Livia Marqués Individuals Rose Arruda Linda Delgado Peter Rosset* Malik Yakini* Nils McCune Kalia and Marty Lydgate Driggs * denotes advisor |
Network coordinator
Margarita Fernandez Executive Director Caribbean Agroecology Institute Network advisors Miguel Altieri | University of California, Berkeley Greg Watson | Schumacher Center for a New Economics Peter Rosset |Center for the Study of the Americas (CENSA) and ECOSUR, Mexico Andrea Panaritis | The Christopher Reynolds Foundation Catherine Murphy | Director/Producer at Maestra Film Eric Leenson | SOL2 Economics Rafael Betancourt | Colegio Universitario San Geronimo de La Habana Livia Marqués | W.K. Kellogg Foundation Judy Wicks | Local Living Economy Susan Witt | Schumacher Center for a New Economics Malik Yakini |Organizer, Activist, Urban Farmer Donors The Christopher Reynolds Foundation Ford Foundation The Flora Family Foundation |