M/M
05-02-2019, 01:47 PM
While men too are part of this movement, this is a book about how women are responding to and, increasingly, rising up against, the injustices of the global food system on 3 continents around the world. This excerpt is from Cuba during the period when Cuba went from exporting cash crops to growing their own food.
Before 1989, the Soviet Union sent vast amounts of agricultural supplies, including petroleum, pesticides, fertilizers, and livestock vaccinations, to fuel Cuban production of cash crops such as sugar cane, tobacco, coffee, and bananas... When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, severing the supply of food and farming supplies, Cuba woke up to a major economic crisis. ... Without food imports to stock the grocery store shelves.... without diesel to run the tractors? .... without synthetic fertilizers? What happened then.......
How Cuba’s Women Farmers Kept Everyone Fed
https://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/farming-and-food-for-the-soul-20180514?fbclid=IwAR02sDDh_Yxf8DII6D4IsRAt35RRgkef3Zh1Gp_jaAcarXhRCPpqGIAysz0
Before 1989, the Soviet Union sent vast amounts of agricultural supplies, including petroleum, pesticides, fertilizers, and livestock vaccinations, to fuel Cuban production of cash crops such as sugar cane, tobacco, coffee, and bananas... When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, severing the supply of food and farming supplies, Cuba woke up to a major economic crisis. ... Without food imports to stock the grocery store shelves.... without diesel to run the tractors? .... without synthetic fertilizers? What happened then.......
How Cuba’s Women Farmers Kept Everyone Fed
https://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/farming-and-food-for-the-soul-20180514?fbclid=IwAR02sDDh_Yxf8DII6D4IsRAt35RRgkef3Zh1Gp_jaAcarXhRCPpqGIAysz0