OVERVIEW It is with great satisfaction that we note that about 20 percent of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba 2004 Report to the President1 is concerned with environmental issues, in particular environmental degradation and how the United States, as well as the international community, could assist a post-transition Cuban government in addressing […]

Notes1 Since the fall of the Soviet Union, we have witnessed a rapid transition from communist governments to more democratic forms of government in Central and Eastern Europe. In most of these situations, the changes and pre-transition analyses have focused on the areas of political, economic, and legal transformation and have paid very little attention […]

Notes1 “Con la crisis, el consumo de un conjunto de importantes nutrientes de la dieta establecida como mínima para el buen funcionamiento del organismo está muy por debajo de los parámetros establecidos, atentando contra la seguridad alimentaria.” —Togores y García, 2003, p. 13 Carmelo Mesa-Lago (2003) ha escrito un influyente ensayo con propuestas específicas para […]

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 […]