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Sustainable agriculture and food security in an era of oil scarcity [electronic resource] : lessons from Cuba / Julia Wright.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; Sterling, Va. : Earthscan, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 261 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781849772730
  • 1849772738
  • 9781435699410
  • 1435699416
  • 9781136555954
  • 1136555951
  • 1282044575
  • 9781282044579
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sustainable agriculture and food security in an era of oil scarcity.DDC classification:
  • 338.1/87291 22
LOC classification:
  • S477.C9 W75 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cuba : providing the model for a post-petroleum food system? -- Post petroleum food systems : transition and change -- Researching Cuba -- The historical context : Cuban agriculture and food systems of the 20th century -- Life after the crisis : the rise of urban agriculture -- From dependency to greater self-reliance : transformation of the Cuban food system -- Cuban food production in the 1990s : a patchwork of approaches -- Institutional coping strategies : transition and decentralization -- Perspectives on the mainstreaming of local organic food systems -- Lessons for the future : Cuba ten years on.
Summary: Based on original research by the author, who had unique access to the rural areas of Cuba, this book provides the only example of a how a country's agriculture and food supply have coped with conditions of post-peak oil.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cuba : providing the model for a post-petroleum food system? -- Post petroleum food systems : transition and change -- Researching Cuba -- The historical context : Cuban agriculture and food systems of the 20th century -- Life after the crisis : the rise of urban agriculture -- From dependency to greater self-reliance : transformation of the Cuban food system -- Cuban food production in the 1990s : a patchwork of approaches -- Institutional coping strategies : transition and decentralization -- Perspectives on the mainstreaming of local organic food systems -- Lessons for the future : Cuba ten years on.

Based on original research by the author, who had unique access to the rural areas of Cuba, this book provides the only example of a how a country's agriculture and food supply have coped with conditions of post-peak oil.

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