Sustainable agriculture and food security in an era of oil scarcity : lessons from Cuba / / Julia Wright

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782743603321
• Autore: Wright Julia
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; Sterling, Va. : , : Earthscan, , 2009
• ISBN: 1-136-55594-3; 1-136-55595-1; 1-282-04457-5; 9786612044571; 600-00-1233-0; 1-84977-273-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.1/87291
• Soggetti: Agriculture and energy - Cuba; Agriculture and state - Cuba; Food supply - Cuba; Organic farming - Cuba; Sustainable agriculture - Cuba
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity: Lessons from Cuba; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Glossary; 1. Cuba: Providing the Model for a Post-Petroleum Food System?; 2. Post-Petroleum Food Systems: Transition and Change; 3. Researching Cuba; 4. The Historical Context: Cuban Agriculture and Food Systems of the 20th Century; 5. Life After the Crisis: The Rise of Urban Agriculture; 6. From Dependency to Greater Self-reliance: Transformation of the Cuban Food System; 7. Cuban Food Production in the 1990s: A Patchwork of Approaches8. Institutional Coping Strategies: Transition and Decentralization; 9. Perspectives on the Mainstreaming of Local Organic Food Systems; 10. Lessons for the Future: Cuba Ten Years On; Appendices; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one living example to draw from: that of Cuba in the 1990s. Based on the first and - up till now - only systematic and empirical study to come out of Cuba on this topic, this book examines how the nation successfully headed off its own food crisis after the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc in the early 1990s. The author identifies the policies and practices required for such an achievement under conditions of petroleum-scarcity and in doing so,