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 […]

This paper presents findings of a case study of a sug­arcane-farming cooperative (cooperativa de producción agropecuaria, CPA) located in the province of Ha­vana, Cuba. Although the internal dynamics of spe­cific Cuban cooperative farms have been examined by Cuban researchers, the results of their studies are not readily available in the United States. [ref]An exception is […]