Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Koont, Sinan, 1943-

Title Sustainable urban agriculture in Cuba / Sinan Koont.

Publication Info. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2011]
©2011

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xvi, 236 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Contemporary Cuba
Contemporary Cuba.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-224) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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, and of the successes it achieved--along with the continuing difficulties it still faces in reducing its need for food imports.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Sustainable agriculture -- Cuba.
Sustainable agriculture.
Cuba.
Urban agriculture -- Cuba.
Urban agriculture.
Agriculture and state -- Cuba.
Agriculture and state.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Koont, Sinan, 1943- Sustainable urban agriculture in Cuba. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, 2011 9780813037578 (DLC) 2011028137 (OCoLC)711045480
ISBN 9780813040431 (electronic book)
0813040434 (electronic book)
9780813037578
0813037573