President Obama’s trip to Cuba has improved U.S.-Cuban relations. While many people in both countries believe that closer relations will help Cuba develop its economy with more U.S. investment, this ...

Picture oxen, returning to farm fields to replace mechanical muscles idled by chronic shortages of fuel and spare parts, and you have some idea of the workings of Cuban agriculture today. In its 1980s ...

In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at the history of Cuban sustainable agriculture and farming. Specifically, I look at why sustainable and organic methods, such as urban ...

TAGUASCO, Cuba, Dec 12 (IPS) - The combined use of clean energies allows Finca del Medio, a farm in central Cuba, to practice a unique system of family farming production that guarantees ...

CHICAGO -- Nearly 100 Americans, including two former top U.S. agriculture officials, won't make a planned trip to Cuba after the Bush administration denied travel licenses to the Illinois-based ...

An upcoming trip to Cuba could help teach Minnesotans how to better farm and manage their urban lands. Stone’s Throw Urban Farm of Minneapolis has assembled a group of delegates to travel to Cuba to ...

HAVANA, Jun 26 2002 (IPS) - Cuba has reduced its farmers’ use of agro-chemicals by 75 percent in the last two decades as a result of the progress made in biologically-based insecticides and fungicides ...