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  • Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: Food First Cuba Sustainable Agricultural Tour
  • Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:52:47 -0700

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From: Food First <foodfirst@foodfirst.org>
Date: Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:18 PM
Subject: Food First Cuba Sustainable Agricultural Tour
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*Cuba Sustainable Agriculture and Urban Gardens Research Trip, May 5-15*
*Thank you for your activism!*
*Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production
in Cuba*
edited by Fernando Funes, Luis Garcia, Martin Bourque, Nilda Perez, and
Peter Rosset


This book is *free *if you sign up for this tour. Purchase the book
here.<http://www.foodfirst.org/en/store/book/Sustainable_Agriculture_and_Resistance>

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*Campesino a Campesino Voices from Latin America's Farmer to Farmer Movement
for Sustainable Agriculture*
by Eric Holt-Giménez


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Dear [Name],


Food First is partnering with Global Exchange to offer you an exciting
opportunity to participate in our annual Sustainable Agriculture and Urban
Gardens Research Delegation in CUBA, May 5 - 15, 2010, with optional
research extension, May 16 - 20. Please forward this information to friends
who might be interested. *You can still sign up for this tour
here<http://www.globalexchange.org/tours/forms.html>
.*

This research tour takes place during a major conference in Cuba on
Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, organized by the Latin American
Agroecological Movement (MAELA), the Latin Amereican Scientific Sciety of
Agroecology (SOCLA), and the Cuban Association of Agriculture and Forest
Tecnicians (ACTAF).

This fortuitous circumstance affords us unprecedented access to Cuban
agriculturalists and in-depth site visits.

*Background on Cuba's Sustainable Agriculture Transformation *

*
*In the early 1990's, Cuba's agricultural system and food supply were
decimated by the tightening of the U.S. embargo and the collapse of the
Soviet Union (which had supplied the majority of Cuba's food imports
(chemical fertilizers and pesticides, fuel for transportation, feed for farm
animals, and almost 60% of Cuba's food). Cubans referred to these years as
the "Special Period."

Due to the severe shortage of hard currency to buy and importat chemical
fertilizers and pesticides, Cuba was forced, in the early 1990's to begin to
practice organic agriculture on a nationwide scale, with some very exciting
results. There are currently tens of thousands of organic gardens in Havana
alone and over a million across the country. In the late 1990's, the Cuban
Association for Organic Agriculture was granted the International Right
Livelihood Award (the Alternative Nobel Prize) for its efforts.

Organic agriculture continues to be supported and expanded at government and
grassroots levels. Havana now grows over half its fresh food organically,
and locally. Cuba hopes to be self sufficient in the production of many of
its basic foods within the next decade.

University graduates in agronomy are handsomely rewarded for contributing
their knowledge of research, technology and administration in rural
settings. This entices educated young Cubans to work in the countryside by
offering them stimulating and productive employment.

All Cuban young people are introduced to agriculture and food production as
part of their education, spending at least one summer during their high
school years, farming in the countryside.

Global Exchange and Food First co-organized the first U.S. delegation to
Cuba focused on sustainable agriculture in 1993, then co-authored the
seminal book on the subject, The Greening of Cuba and collaborated on an
award winning video of the same title. In 2002 The Food First book,
Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in Cuba
was published.

Delegations of professors and practitioners of organic agriculture to Cuba,
organized by Global Exchange and Food First, have developed exchange
programs through their universities and communities. These relationships are
now proliferating, with scientists and farmers expanding their own joint
projects between the U.S. and Cuba. It is only the U.S. embargo that
interferes with the full development of these joint projects.

*Program Highlights: *

*
*► Scale Model of Havana
► Meet with Cuban Architect/City Planner
► City Tour/urban gardens/farmer's markets
► Ministry of Agriculture
► Tropical Agriculture Institute (INIFAT)
► Provinces of Pinar del Rio, Matanzas,
Villa Clara and Sancti Spíritus
► Dairy and vegetable production farm
► Local farmers and Community projects
► Neighborhood organization, (CDR)
► Vermiculture project
► Pastures and Forages Station
► Cubasolar NGO

Cost: $2550, double occupancy when available; single occupancy supplement,
$300. Fee for optional extended tour TBA.
For information on possible partial scholarships, also refer to the web page
above in the Downloads section on the upper right sidebar of the page.

Price Includes:
RT flight Cancun/Havana/Cancun, Cuban visa, double hotel accommodations
(when available), most meals, translation, transportation, and program fees.

*How to Register:*

Please send your application and a non-refundable deposit of $400 by April 5
or a late fee of $50 will be applied. Payments by Mastercard, Discover or
Visa are welcome. Be sure to ask for a free copy of Food First's
"Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance; Transforming Food Production in
Cuba" when you register.


Contact Drea with any questions about the logistics for this trip, at
415-255-7296, ext. 211 or call toll-free 1-800-497-1994 ext. 211.

Contact Pam with any questions about the program at 510-649-1052.


*Websites and articles on Cuba's food and farming system you might enjoy:*

"Cultivating Havana: Urban Agriculture and Food Security in the Years of
Crisis," by Catherine Murphy, Feb 18, 1999
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/273

"Alternative Nobel Prize Goes to Cuban Group Promoting the Organic
Revolution," October 6, 1999
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/187

"Cuba's New Agricultural Revolution: The Transformation of Food Crop
Production in Contemporary Cuba," by Laura Enriquez, May 1, 2000
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/271

"The Greening of Cuba," by Caroline Whyte, An Caorthann (The Rowan Tree)
Irish green-alternative magazine
http://www.iol.ie/~mazzoldi/toolsforchange/zine/sam98/cuba.html

"The Greening of Cuba," by Peter Rosset. ACLA Report on the Americas, 1994
http://www.interconnection.org/resources/cuba.htm

"Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in
Cuba" edited by Fernando Funes, Luis Garcia, Martin Bourque, Nilda Perez,
and Peter Rosset.
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/store/book/Sustainable_Agriculture_and_Resistance


*We look forward to hearing from you,*

*Pam Montanaro
Eco Cuba Exchange
www.ecocubaexchange.org
pam@globalexchange.org
510-649-1052*

*Drea Hightower
Cuba Reality Tours
www.realitytours.org
drea@globalexchange.org
800-497-1994 x 211
415-255-7296, x 211*

*
Travel and visa will be arranged by Global Exchange Reality Tours, a Cuba
Travel Service Provider, licensed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control
(OFAC) of the US Treasury Department.
*


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