An alternate title for this, my first Daily Kos diary, is "What can we learn from Cuban low-petroleum agriculture?"
Cuba, a country that has faced economic hardship as a result of punitive, longstanding economic sanctions from the U.S. and an end to subsidies from the defunct Eastern Bloc and Soviet Union, as well as increases in oil prices and other costs affecting the world at large, can in some ways serve as a laboratory for other countries that have not yet faced these problems so severely but probably will later.
I believe we can learn valuable lessons from Cuba's experience with organic agriculture, if we are willing to drop some of our assumptions.
Read More