Cuba stands out among Latin American nations for its efforts to institutionalize food
sovereignty (FS) through the promotion of alternative small‐scale farming, making it a prime …

This thesis focuses on the food sovereignty approach to food security, emphasizing the role
of agricultural cooperatives and drawing on the case study of Cuba. As the Cuban state …

Civil-society-centric and globalist conceptions of food sovereignty neglect the fact that food
sovereignty depends not only on the counterhegemonic conquest of civil society but also on …

Attempts to democratize the food system and make it more equitable through food
sovereignty take many forms across space. In Cuba, food sovereignty is perceived as the …

In the early 1990s, Cuba entered the Special Period in the Time of Peace as a response to
the economic struggle that resulted from the loss of the USSR as a trading partner following …

The recent volatility of food crop prices and the rising cost of inputs—fossil fuels, fertilizers,
and pesticides—have made it nearly impossible for many of the world's smallholder farmers …

Urban agriculture in Cuba has played an important role for citizens' food supply since the
collapse of the Eastern Block. Through the land reform of 2008 and the Lineamientos of …

When Cuba's trade-based food security strategy was threatened by the collapse of the
socialist trading block in 1989–1991, the popular response of small and irregular farmers …

In Cuba, the transition from industrial agriculture towards agroecology since the Special
Period of the early 1990s has provided both an incredible example for alternative …

In the last thirty years, Cuba and its capital Havana have become homes to one of the most
vibrant urban agricultural movements in the world. This article argues that urban agriculture …