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There are loads of websites about Cuba, for and against the Revolution.

A good set of links can be found at the site maintained by volunteers of:
Top of PageProject USA/Cuba InfoMed

Cuba's English language weekly:
Top of PageGranma

Cuba solidarity organisations:
Top of PageA list of Cuba solidarity organisations round the world

Related U.K. sites include
Top of PageCuba Solidarity Campaign campaigns for Cuba's right to sovereignty and independence.
E-mail:
office@cuba-solidarity.org.uk , phone 0208 800 0155

Henry Doubleday Research Association:
Top of PageGarden Organic (formerly Henry Doubleday Research Association)
Europe's biggest organic gardeners organisation, Garden Organic promotes, researches and demonstrates organic horticulture and agriculture in the UK. The organisation also co-ordinates an overseas programme of work with sustainable agriculture and forestry systems in developing countries.
For further details contact:
Garden Organic, Ryton Organic Gardens, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Coventry CV8 3LG.
Fax: 024 7663 9229. Tel: 024 7630 8206.
e-mail
enquiries@gardenorganic.org.uk

Other groups supporting food security programmes in Cuba:
Top of PageFood First (The Institute for Food and Development) strong supporters of organic farming in Cuba
Lots of reports here on the organic farming situation

Food First produced The Greening of the Revolution: Cuba's experiment with organic agriculture by Peter Rosset and Medea Benjamin, published by Ocean Press. This is available from the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, or can be ordered from your local bookshop.

Australian Permaculture
Australian permaculturists were early supporters of organic Cuba.
The Permaculture Global Assistance Network (PGAN) was the original supporter of the Green Team. Later the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) picked up the reins.
Top of PageReports and photos from the Green Team work from 1995 - 1997

Oxfam America
From their magazine: ADVOCACY UPDATE (Winter 98 )
Top of PageOxfam Helping to Ease Cuba's Food Crisis by Berniece Romero

From Oxfam Canada comes
Top of PageOxfams' Work in Cuba by Cathy Holtslander, for Synergy Magazine.

Also by Cathy Holtslander:
Top of PageThe Metropolitan Park Project: Cuba's Organic Urban Agriculture in Action (PDF File)

Worldwide Fund for Nature report (October 2006):
Top of Pagehttp://assets.panda.org/downloads/living_planet_report.pdf

Literature

Review: Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance
Top of PageSustainable Agriculture and Resistance – Transforming Food Production in Cuba

 

 

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