For decades, an international embargo prevented Cuba from importing things fertilizer and pesticides, and pharmaceutical drugs. As a result, the country had to rely on organic agriculture and traditional medicine to serve its population. Now that Cuba is slowly re-entering the world community, that could all change. But many think that Cuba stands to lose a lot if it adopts the mainstream practices that increasingly appear to have counter-productive results in other parts of the world. That’s why American delegations representing the organic industry are flooding Havana to encourage Cuban officials to resist the enticements of larger, more conventional American food and farming interests and persuade Cubans to protect and extend the small-scale organic practices that are already a part of their daily life.
Americans rush to Cuba to save organic agriculture practices on the island
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