Cuba’s Revolutionary Agro-Ecological Movement
Cuba’s Revolutionary Agro-Ecological Movement
Learning from the Experience of Food Sovereignty
The 2005–2008 global food crisis is an instance of a more general phenomenon: the break-up of the neoliberal agri-food order. In Cuba, the food sovereignty movement led to the world’s “largest conversion from conventional agriculture to organic and semi-organic agriculture”—an example for the developing world of ecological alternatives that challenge the neoliberal agri-food order. Cuba shows that it is possible to “shift from a focus on global food to a focus on local food” and to “implement policies that are friendly to the needs of people, communities, and the environment.” Cuba’s experience has become a model for food sovereignty policies by newly emerging left-leaning governments and social movements in countries such as Venezuela. The implementation of this strategy depends on combining local, nationwide, and international efforts undertaken through decentralized decision-making processes, strong societal structures, and consensual policy networks in the countryside.
Keywords: Cuba, Internationalism, Food Sovereignty Movement, Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas, Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América, ALBA, La Vía Campesina, National Association of Small Farmers, ANAP
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