Inside Cuba’s Urban Agriculture Revolution

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Published on Friday, April 16, 2010 by Kitchen Gardeners

Havana Homegrown: Inside Cuba’s Urban Agriculture Revolution

by Roger Doiron

I recently had the good fortune to travel to Cuba as part of trip organized by the Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance and the IATP Food and Society Fellows program. The organic and urgan agriculture revolution that is under way there is nothing short of amazing, but what a lot of people don’t know is the amount of hardship Cubans have been through to get to where they are. Unlike with most people in the US and other wealthy countries, growing their own and doing it organically were not really choices for Cubans: they did it to survive. Or to put it more flippantly, when life gave the Cubans limes (mint and rum), they decided to make mojitos.

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