State officials been offering farmers a series of stimulus packages that include land and agricultural equipment, in hopes of upping food prodcution. Under these reforms, farmers are now allowed to sell their products directly to hotels, without the state middleman. Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo talks to farmers to see how the program is working.
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Peter Greenberg Worldwide travel correspondent Alyssa Caverley recently traveled to Cuba where she learned the value of tobacco on individual families. Truly living "like a local", we traveled to the Vinales region of Cuba and met a local tobacco farming family who taught us the process and showed us the ins and outs of their day-to-day life.
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This video from the nonprofit group KGI (KitchenGardeners.org ) looks at the urban agriculture revolution in Havana, Cuba and its origins. Cuba is not only an island nation in terms of its geography, but also its economy and politics as a result of the US embargo and the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba's largest source of trade and aid until the Berlin Wall fell in 1991. Cut off from the world's pipeline of food, oil, chemical pesticides and fertilizers, Cuba embarked upon an ambitious program to grow as much of its own organic food as possible in the 1990s during what was known as the "special period." This short video produced by the nonprofit group Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI) peeks into Havana's urban farms and gardens to see what lessons they have to offer other cities working to move toward sustainable food security. For more information on other homegrown solutions around the world, please see KGI's website here kitchengardeners.org
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www.euronews.com While traditional agricultural methods can be very productive it is still important to keep up with new developments, as demand for foodstuffs grows. The UN estimates that by 2050, global demand for food will be three times greater than today. Many countries are working to sustain their agricultural resources and promote good farming practices. Learning World looks at lessons on agriculture in Pakistan, Cuba and China. *Pakistan: seeding, harvesting and eating* Monsoon floods in Pakistan devastated the country's agricultural sector. Now as the country recovers from the crisis, many organisations are giving lessons in modern agricultural methods to local communities. 75 million Pakistanis are directly dependent on farming, a sector that makes up 21% of its GDP. Improving overall quality in this area therefore, is critical. "welthungerhilf":www.welthungerhilfe.de "alliance2015": www.alliance2015.org "fao":www.fao.org "Pakistan":sappk.wordpress.com "economie":www.tresor.economie.gouv.fr Cuba: Farming challenges The US economic embargo resulted in Cuba investing in internal resources like agriculture to promote farming techniques which address the country's needs. New curriculums aim to capitalise on a new breed of young land-owning farmers. Colleges are a vital to teaching the next generation the ins and outs of agriculture. The future of the island is in the students hands as Cuba continues to import 80% of what it consumes. Dismantling the state monopoly ...
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Cuban Socialist Farms and his Farming products like Sugar, Tobacco, Fruits,etc..
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Cuba has achieved excellent results in the implementation of ostrich farming, it has grown nearly twice its initial volume and fertility indicators are higher than 80%. teleSUR multimedia.telesurtv.net
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Since the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union, urban agriculture has provided employment and income for the urban population of Cuba. Urban agriculture enhances the quality and sufficiency of food for the urban farmer and his family.
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Another segment from Episode 1 of the Future of Food (BBC 2009). While in Cuba, George Alagiah visits a farm using inter-cropping and minimal external inputs to increase the effective yield.
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Small farmers working on privately owned farms and in cooperatives have made major contributions to the successful implementation of agroecology in the countryside of Cuba.
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A journey report by Michelle Hubbard who is doing a PhD in agriculture. Amongst other things, Michelle is an expert on microorganisms. For more on permaculture in Saskatchewan check: www.permasask.ca
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The Soviet Union lasted from 1917 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. During this time it enforced policies of collectivized agriculture that caused famine, resulting in the death of millions of people throughout the Soviet Union. While most farm land was confiscated to form huge state-owned farms, privately owned garden plots were permitted. These garden plots made up less than 1% of the Soviet Union's cultivated land, but they produced an incredible 27% of the total Soviet farm output. The privately-owned garden plots produced food out of all proportion to their size and saved millions of Soviet citizens from death by starvation. Meanwhile, the massive collectivized farms reported crop failures year after year in spite of brutal and deadly methods employed by the government to increase production. When Mao Tse-tung's Communists came to power in China, they used Soviet advisers to establish policies for the collectivization of Chinese agriculture. As in the Soviet Union, tens of millions died of starvation as a result of abolishing private farms. Cuba provides a more recent example of the consequences of a socialist economy. In 1993 Cuba reported an epidemic of 34000 Cubans who had gone blind. The epidemic was traced to vitamin deficiencies and malnutrition caused by the failure of Cuba's state-operated farms and economy. Castro meanwhile has promised to adhere faithfully to the policies of socialism, no matter the cost to the people of Cuba.
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A clip from the BBC's "Around the World in 80 Gardens" (2008) showing some of the urban food gardening in Havana, Cuba. Presented by Monty Don. www.bbc.co.uk 24 june 2009 - sorry guys, i've disabled comments. for a simple vid about people growing food, it's getting way too heated in here!
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A journey report by Michelle Hubbard who is doing a PhD in agriculture. Amongst other things, Michelle is an expert on microorganisms. For more on permaculture in Saskatchewan check: www.permasask.ca
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"Rock Around the Blockade" Brigadistas ask a Cuban farmer if he is living under a dictatorship.
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It's never too late to learn how to grow food and other life saving plants. Cuba experienced in 1989 what we will experience in the not too distant future. video edit from: The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006) en.wikipedia.org www.powerofcommunity.org
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Future of Food -Part 3: Cuba In the final episode George Alagiah heads out to Havana to find out how they are growing half of their fruit and vegetables right in the heart of the city, investigates the 'land-grabs' trend -- where rich countries lease or buy up the land used by poor farmers in Africa -- and meets the Indian agriculturalists who have almost trebled their yields over the course of a decade. George finds out how we in this country are using cutting-edge science to extend the seasons recycle our food waste and even grow lettuce in fish tanks to guarantee the food on our plates. He hears the arguments about genetically modified food and examines even more futuristic schemes to get the food on to our plates.
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While in Cuba - Cayo Largo we visited a local Turtle Farm
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Humberto Ríos Labrada talks about innovations in organic agriculture, plant breeding and peoples' participation in Cuba and other countries. And he sings about it too! This is a talk given by Humberto at Secular Hall, Leicester on 6 February 2007, hosted jointly by Leicester Secular Society and the Cuba Solidarity Campaign. PART 1: Home made beer; the "green revolution" model; economic crisis; a new way of thinking.
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