Notes1 Cuba’s farming cooperatives constitute the dominant organizational form within Cuban agriculture. Some 3,600 cooperative farms manage about 56% of Cuba’s croplands. They grow food for national consumption and for export, and provide full-time jobs for around 300,000 cooperative members.2 They supply a variety of social benefits for members and their families: over a million […]

Notes1 Current U.S.-Cuba relations deny two-way agribusiness trade. Many analysts believe removal of U.S. economic sanctions on Cuba and a democratic freemarket Republic of Cuba would open the door for multi-billion dollar trade and investment in food and agriculture between the two countries. This paper provides background information on U.S.-Cuba food and agricultural trade, and […]