SAN ANDRÉS, Cuba - (IPS) - María Valido has stopped thinking of herself as a simple farmer devoted to traditional household chores since becoming involved in an agricultural innovation programme that has changed the...
Journalistic Article
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Context
Unlike the isolated sustainable agriculture movements that have been developed in most countries, Cuba developed a massive movement with wide, popular participation, where agrarian production was seen as the key...
Paper presented in Seed Organic Conference, FAO. Rome, July 2004. Abstract: Nowadays one of the most discussed themes in agriculture is the relationship between agrobiodiversity and crop yield, frequently conventional...
An overview of how the agroecological approach in Cuba has shown that decentralized and participatory methods can promote diversity, yield, and growers' empowerment.
Conventional seed production systems in Cuba
During the golden years of the eastern Socialist countries, a centralised plant-breeding model was a standard component of the high- input agriculture being practiced in Cuba...
