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 twentieth 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 decentralisation -- 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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