Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity: Lessons from Cuba

by Julia Wright

Book Overview

When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one living example to draw from: that of Cuba in the 1990s. Based on the first and - up till now - only systematic and empirical study to come out of Cuba on this topic, this book examines how the nation successfully headed off its own food crisis after the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc in the early 1990s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415507340
• ISBN13: 9780415507349
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"