News and information about Cuba is often polarized, filled with misinformation or just difficult to access, especially that which is produced inside of Cuba. In an effort to help raise awareness and access to diverse sources of information about food, agriculture and environment issues in Cuba we collate, summarize, translate and share news briefs that highlights news and events happening in Cuba. See our archives here.

We also populate this knowledge hub with peer reviewed, grey literature and government reports on food, agriculture and environment issues in Cuba and relating to Cuba-US relations.

PUBLICATIONS BY YEAR

2022

• ​Núñez Velis, Liliana, Pérez Rivero, Roberto, Saura Iglesias, Monica, Fernández Pérez, Margarita, Chen Glenda, Miller, Valerie (eds). Sustainable livelihoods in Cuba’s coastal zones: The challenge of achieving climate resilience in tourism, energy, fisheries, agriculture, and communities. 2022. Version en español
• Machado, Mario and Fernandez, Margarita. This Cuban Town Has A Sustainability Lesson to Share: La Picadora's embrace of agroecology has fundamentally changed its landscape, both environmentally and economically. 2022 Orion Magazine.
• Food Security, Sovereignty and Nutritional Education Law, passed July 2022

2021

• Pérez Consuegra, N. y Caballero Grande, R (coord.). 2021. Agroecología en Cuba - Iniciativas y evidencias innovadoras escalables. La Habana, FAO, MINAG y ACTAF. 
• Cuba Informe Nacional Voluntario 2021 ODS
• Blue, Sarah A., Amy Trauger, Hilda Kurtz, and Jason Dittmer. "Food sovereignty and property in Cuba and the United States." The Journal of Peasant Studies (2021): 1-18.
• Álvarez, Anicia García, and Betsy Anaya Cruz. "Food Access in Cuba: Current Situation and Challenges." Social Policies and Institutional Reform in Post-COVID Cuba (2021): 117.
• Vazquez, Luis. "Resiliencia de sistemas de produccion agropecuaria expuestos al huracan Irma en Cuba" Pastos y Forrajes (2021). 
• Congressional Research Service. US Agricultural Trade with Cuba: Current Limitations and Future Prospects. 2021.
• Co-innovacion en Red de Patios y Fincas Familiares Manejadas por Mujeres.

2020

• Vasquez, Luis. 2020. La territorializacion de la produccion agroalimentaria sobre bases agroecologicas en Cuba: Un reforzamiento sostenible ante la crisis del COVID-19. Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Agrecologicas (CELIA). 
• Benítez, Barbara, Erin Nelson, María Isabel Romero Sarduy, Rodobaldo Ortíz Pérez, Anaisa Crespo Morales, Caridad Casanova Rodríguez, Maybe Campos Gómez et al. "Empowering Women and Building Sustainable Food Systems: A Case Study of Cuba's Local Agricultural Innovation Project." Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 4 (2020): 554414.
• Funes Monzote, Fernando. La Metafora del Pozo: Proyecto Agroecologico Finca Marta. Organizacion de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentacion y la Agricultura. 2020.
• Nils McCune, Ivette Perfecto, Katia Avilés-Vázquez, Jesús Vázquez-Negrón & John Vandermeer (2019): Peasant balances and agroecological scaling in Puerto Rican coffee farming, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

2018

• Elementa Science of the Anthropocene Special Feature: Cuba's Agrifood Systems in Transition, featuring 8 articles examining different aspects of Cuba's agriculture and food system. Link to articles.
• Fernandez, Margarita, Justine Williams, Galia Figueroa, Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, Mario Machado, Luis Vazquez, Nilda Perez, Leidy Casimiro, Graciela Romero, and Fernando Funes-Aguilar. "New opportunities, new challenges: Harnessing Cuba’s advances in agroecology and sustainable agriculture in the context of changing relations with the United States." Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 6 (2018).

2017

• Cuba Country Brief (Issue brief). (2017). World Food Programme. Link to brief
• Fernandez, M. (2017). Urban Agriculture in Cuba: 30 years of policy and practice. Urban Agriculture Magazine, 33, 41-44. Link to article
• Rosset, P. & Altieri, M. (2017). Agroecology: Science and Politics. Rugby, Warwickshire: Practical Action Publishing. Link to book summary and to purchase
• Sabourin, E., [et al] (organizers) (2017). Políticas públicas a favor de la agroecología en América Latina y el Caribe (Rep.). Porto Alegre, Brasil: Red PP-AL: FAO. Link to document

2016

• Altieri, M. (2016, March 25). Cuba's sustainable agriculture at risk in U.S. thaw. The Conversation. Retrieved from http://theconversation.com/cubas-sustainable-agriculture-at-risk-in-u-s-thaw-56773
• Caridad Cruz, M. (2016). Agricultura urbana en América Latina y el Caribe: Casos concretos desde la mirada del buen vivir. Nueva Sociedad: Democracía y política en América Latina. Link to article
• Cuba: su nueva revolución campesina. (2016). Biodiversidad: Sustento y Culturas. Link to special issue
• Graddy-Lovelace, G. (2016). United States-Cuba Agricultural Relations and Agrarian Questions. Journal of Agrarian Change. Link to article
• Prospects for U.S. Agribusiness in Cuba (Rep.). (2016). Washington, DC: Engage Cuba. Link to report
• Memorias: Agroenergía para el desarrollo agrario sostenible. (2016). In IV Convención Internacional, Agrodesarrollo 2016. Matanzas, Cuba: Estación Experimental de Pastos y Forrajes Indio Hatuey. Link to publication -- (takes a long time to load)
• Vásquez, L. (2016). Resiliencia a la sequía sobre bases agroecológicas: Sistematización de un proceso de coninnovación participativa. (Rep.). Guantánamo, Cuba. Link to report

2015

• Cuba, Ministerio de la Agricultura (MINAG). (2015). Estrategía de género del sistema de la agricultura de Cuba 2015-2020. La Habana, Cuba. Link to document
• United States, Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service. (2015). U.S. Agricultural Exports to Cuba Have Substantial Room for Growth (International Agricultural Trade Report). Link to report

2014

• García Álvarez, M. E., Tejeda González, G., & Hernández Morales, C. A. (2014). Estudio de los factores críticos que inciden en el ciclo de la sostenibilidad alimentaria en Cuba (Tech.). La Habana, Cuba: Instituto de Investigaciones en Fruticultura Tropical (IIFT). Link to Report
• The State of Food and Agriculture: Innovation in family farming (Rep.). (2014). Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Link to Report

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2013

• Gamboa Costa, A., González Sousa, R., & Herrera Sorzano, A. (2013). Soberanía y seguridad alimentaria en Cuba: políticas públicas necesarias para reducir la dependencia alimentaria. Revista Agrisost, 19(3). Link to article
• Garth, H. (2013). Food and identity in the Caribbean. London: Bloomsbury. Link to book summary and to purchase
• Garth, H. (2013). Resistance and Household Food Consumption in Santiago de Cuba. Food Activism: Agency, Democracy and Economy, 47-60. Link to article
• Machin Sosa, B., Roque Jaime, A. M., Avila Lozano, D. R., & Rosset, P. (2013). Agroecological Revolution: The Farmer-to-Farmer Movement of the ANAP in Cuba. La Habana, Cuba: Asociación Nacional de Agricultores Pequeños (ANAP). Link to PDF of book (English version)
• Mulet Concepción, Y. (2013). Non-agricultural cooperatives in Cuba: A new way to unleash the forces of production? From the Island, (22). Link to article

2012

• Altieri, M., & Funes-Monzote, F. (2012). The Paradox of Cuban Agriculture. Monthly Review, 63(8). Link to article
• Cabello, J. J. [et al]. (2012). An approach to sustainable development: the case of Cuba. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 14(4), 573-591. Link to article
• Schultz, R. (2012). Food Sovereignty and Cooperatives in Cuba's Socialism. Socialism and Democracy, 26(3), 117-138. Link to article
• Wright, J. (2012). The little-studied success story of post-crisis food security in Cuba: Does lack of international interest signify a lack of political will? International Journal of Cuban Studies, 4(2), 130-153. Link to article

2011

• Koont, S. (2011). Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. Link to book review
• McCune, N. M. [et al]. (2011). Global Questions, Local Answers: Soil Management and Sustainable Intensification in Diverse Socioeconomic Contexts of Cuba. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 35(6), 650-670. Link to article
• Rosset, P., Machín Sosa, B., Roque Jaime, A. M., & Ávila Lozano, D. R. (2011). The Campesino-to-Campesino agroecology movement of ANAP in Cuba: social process methodology in the construction of sustainable peasant agriculture and food sovereignty. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 38(1), 161-191. Link to article
• Suárez, J. [et al]. (2011). Experiencias del proyecto BIOMAS-CUBA. Alternativas energéticas a partir de la biomasa en el medio rural cubano. Pastos y Forrajes, 34(4). Link to article

2010

• Kilcher, L. (2010). Organic Agriculture in Cuba: Managing with Limited Resources (Rep.). Bonn, Germany: International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM). Link to report
• Simón Reardón, J. A., & Alemán Perez, R. (2010). Agroecology and the Development of Indicators of Food Sovereignty in Cuban Food Systems. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 34(8), 907-922. Link to article

2009

• Buchmann, C. (2009). Cuban Home Gardens and Their Role in Social–Ecological Resilience. Human Ecology, 37(705). Link to article
• Funes Monzote, F. R., & Freyre Roach, E. F. (Eds.). (2009). Transgénicos ¿que se gana? ¿que se pierde?. textos para un debate en Cuba. La Habana: Publicaciones Acuario, Centro Félix Varela. Link to article
• Funes Aguilar, F., & Funes Monzote, F. (2009). La Agroecología en Cuba: su Desarrollo y Situación Actual. Revista Brasileña de Agroecología, 4(2). Link to article
• Garth, H. (2009). Things Became Scarce: Food availability and accessibility in Santiago de Cuba then and now. NAPA Bulletin, 32: 178–192. Link to article
• Koont, S. (2009). The Urban Agriculture of Havana. Monthly Review, 60(8). Link to article
• Nelson, E., Scott, S., Cukier, J., & Leyva Galan, A. (2009). Institutionalizing agroecology: successes and challenges in Cuba. Agriculture and Human Values, 26(3), 233-243. Link to article
• Wright, J. (2009). Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity: Lessons from Cuba. Earthscan. Link to purchase

2007

• Koont, S. (2007). Urban Agriculture in Cuba: Of, by and for the barrio. Nature, Society and Thought, 20(3-4), 311-326. Link to article
• Messina, W., Bonnett, E., & Taylor, T. (2007). Cuba: A view of revealed export advantage. Link to article

2006

• Holt-Giménez, E. (2006). Campesino a Campesino: Voices from Latin America’s Farmer to Farmer Movement for Sustainable Agriculture. Food First Books. Link to book summary and to purchase
• Jiménez Guethón, R. (2006). Educación para la participación social en las Unidades Básicas de Producción Cooperativa (UBPC) (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Universidad de la Habana, Cuba. Link temporarily unavailable

2004

• Kost, W. E. (2004). Cuban Agriculture: To be or not to be organic? Cuba in Transition, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, 14, 274-281. Link to article
• Ross, J. E. (2004). Cuba: U.S. Agribusiness Export Prospects Under Three Scenarios. Cuba in Transition, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, 14, 369-380. Link to article
• Royce, F. S. (2004). Agricultural Production Cooperatives: The Future of Cuban Agriculture? Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, 14(19), 19-53. Link to article
• Royce, F. S. (2004). Agricultural Production Cooperatives in Cuba: Toward Sustainability. Cuba in Transition, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, 14, 254-273. Link to article

2003

• Fertilizer use by crop in Cuba (Rep.). (2003). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Link to report

1999

• Messina, W. A. (1999). Agricultural Reform in Cuba: Implications for agricultural production, markets and trade. Cuba in Transition, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, 9, 433-442. Link to article

1996

• Messina, W. A., Jr., & Alvarez, J. (1996). Cuba's New Agricultural Cooperatives and Markets: Antecedents, Organization, Early Performance and Prospects. Cuba in Transition, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, 6(28), 175-195. Link to article
• Messina, W. A., Jr., Spreen, T. H., Moseley, A. E., & Adams, C. M. (1996). Cuba's Non-sugar agriculture: Current situation and prospects. Cuba in Transition, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, 6(8), 16-22. Link to article

Year Unknown

• Jiménez Guethón, R. M. (year unknown). Desarrollo local y cooperativas agrícolas en Cuba: logros y desafíos. Revista Africa América Latina, 46. Link to article

OTHER RESOURCES

• The Schumacher Center for New Economics' online collection of lectures and publications

VIDEOS

• Multimedia Peasant School: An audiovisual tool to scale up agroecology
• Tierralismo: Good Earth Film Tour
• The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
• Maestra
• The Soil Story