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Cuba's urban-ag miracle
The U.S. media discover how food production works without access to cheap oil |
Tom Philpott |
10 Jun 2008 |
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| The story is legendary in peak-oil circles: Twenty years ago, the Soviet Union pulled the plug on Cuba's cheap-energy, cheap-food era. (See Bill McKibben's feature piece on the subject here.) No longer would the fading superpower accept the tiny island nation's sugar as payment for crude oil. From then on, only hard currency would do. It also halted food aid. In short order, gas and food prices spiked and people's living standards tumbled. Next, a widespread s ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Cuba, food, industrial ag, organic food (all these topics) |
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