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Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba /
Sinan Koont has spent the last several years researching urban agriculture in Cuba, including field work at many sustainable farms on the island. He tells the story of why and how Cuba was able to turn to urban food production on a large scale with minimal use of chemicals, petroleum, and machinery,...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville, FL :
University Press of Florida,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cuban agriculture: historical background and key concepts
- The nature and organization of Cuban urban agriculture
- Foundations in education, research, and development
- Restructuring worker training, preparatory education, and material inputs for urban agriculture
- Creating material and moral incentives to motivate workers
- Technological innovation in urban agriculture: examples from protected and semiprotected cultivation
- Case studies of urban agriculture
- Evaluating the success of Cuban urban agriculture
- Looking to the future of urban and sustainable agriculture: Cuba and worldwide.