Join sustainability expert Carey Clouse for a talk about Cuba's decades-long experiment in small-scale urban agriculture. Based on her new book Farming Cuba.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba found itself cut off from the imports and trade subsidies that had sustained it for decades. With fuel, fertilizers, and pesticides disappearing overnight, citizens began growing their own food anywhere they could find space-on rooftops, balconies, vacant lots, and even school playgrounds.
Now there are more than 8,000 urban farms in Havana, producing nearly half the city's vegetables, and transforming the urban landscape in the process. What began as a grassroots initiative has grown into the largest conversion from conventional agriculture to organic and semi-organic farming the world has ever seen, and has made Cuba the world leader in urban farming.
In Farming Cuba, Carey Clouse investigates Cuba's urban farming endeavor and the social, political, and environmental factors that have helped shape it. As communities around the world face potential food shortages brought on by the end of cheap oil and the effects of climate change, Clouse shows how Cuba's experience with decentralized, sustainable, and diverse food production can serve as a possible model for alternative self-sufficiency.
Carey Clouse teaches architecture and urbanism at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is a partner at Crookedworks, a firm addressing the intersection between architecture and sustainability. She practices architecture for disaster resilience in New Orleans, and in 2014 she won a Fulbright FLEX Award to travel to the Indian Himalayas to study designs that help cope with climate change.
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