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Cuba and the dilemma of modern agriculture
Agriculture and Human Values 10 (3):3-8 (1993)
Abstract
Having lost 73% of its purchasing power and 42% of it gross national product since the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba faces a crisis with the modern agricultural system it had developed over the past 30 years. The response has been to put an alternative model into practice. The successes and problems associated with this model are discussedMy notes
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