kellie doremus- What is food security?How does the urban agriculture program in Cuba operate to maximize fodo security for the people?What are the limitations to urban agriculture in Cuba?Could this type of agriculture work here in the United States?
Austin Vidich- Array
freakoutguitarsolo1- organic is the way to go
starfiremale- I had a fantastic time in Cuba,loved Havanah,,,tho got into some very hairy scrapes
Lario- @squathacker "To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary...These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall!" --Ernesto 'Che' Guevara The words of a Murderer... Pull your head out of your rear.
odin422- WE COULD ALL LEARN A LESSON FROM THESE ORGANIC-FERTILIZER FREE FARMERS! they are awesome
Kitchen Gardeners International- @cgalgeciras I'm sure there would be some who would go back to chemicals, just as I'm sure there are many conventional farmers in the US who would like to stop using chemicals if the economic and political conditions allowed them to. Couched in your comment is the notion that organic systems are by their nature less productive than their chemical counterparts and the Cuban example (and others around the world) is challenging that.
JK- I strongly believe that Cuba is way ahead in the race to establish sustainable agriculture as a formal agricultural way of production.
Moondoggxxx- if people would jjust grow thier oen veggies at home, the huge corporate farms could shrink and help out the enviroment and cut back on pollution, everyone has thier own cows and chickens - a barn attachment for everyhouse
Iron Maiden- Thank you, I enjoyed watching this clip. Food Security is a huge issue as our resources get more constrained. Thank you for an enlightening video.
synapsecracklepop- factories, commercial property, homes and land in foreclosure... un-remarketable... sitting idle, while millions of unemployed would happily volunteer to reclaim the land... to re-purpose it, for housing and agriculture... even small business. we're nuts... nothing of merit happens sometimes, until the right people stand to profit, in America Thanks for posting
Kae Yowell- Awesome video!! Please come visit the Local Food Project kitchen garden at Airlie Center in Warrenton, VA. It's a 4-acre organic vegetable, herb and flower garden that has been around for 15 years and focuses on sustainability. It's just as inspiring and truly unique! Airlie .com for more info. :)
Aaron MK- Something somewhat touched up on when I took an Envriomental Science class a few months ago for college. We discussed stuff like urban farming and I believe we may have watched a video of a simaler project going on in New York city.
Michele Goodsell- awesome. Very interesting. I love the fact that the cubans have learnt how to grow there own food then expecting help from others. I wish more people will look at this and start up there own gardens.
Mehdy Habib- thanks for this video, it really helped with my geography research :)
5lkk- @cgalgeciras I'm a bit confused.In an communist economy what advantage is there for a small farm in increasing production? In the US capitalist economy, the increase production of many small farms resulted in production outstripping demand with resulting lower income for the family farms. In the theoretical perfect communist economy, increased production should lift all in the country, including the farmer, but for some reason I feel the farmer will not far as well as the rest.
Elizabeth Westworth- @cgalgeciras Poly-cultures can actually over-yield mono-cultures. Emulating nature in this way means that you don't need any pesticides or chemical-ridden fertilizers to sustain the crop. Check out the work of Wes Jackson and The Land Institute.. really inspirational stuff!
VendPrekmurec- Eco Socialism is the future! Nature, people & faith in common good!
Johnny Fontenot- So awesome!! I wish to travel to Cuba and am very interested in studying the realtion between that 'weight' loss issue and heart disease.
JFAINTER88- damn. living off a dollar a day.
mikecorbeil- Liked & favourited. It isn't an extensive sort of documentary video, but it's certainly about an important p.o.v. or perspective. Sanctions against Cuba are still maintained today by Washington & its compliant so-called allies; & it's all extremely criminal, hypocritical, hegemonic, & so on. But the Cuban govt & population have proven the, an or some ability to survive through this, & the country indeed does serve as a great example of human resourcefulness. Not only that, it's also generous.
Kitchen Gardeners International- @kryptiea Actually, there was a lot of diversity of crops in the gardens (and the photos), but maybe not what you're expecting. You need to know that we were visiting during the winter so the beds were full of lettuces and other greens, alliums and brassicas, often interplanted in the same bed...very far from a monoculture.
mikecorbeil- Probably no other country sent as many medical professionals to Haiti to try to help Haitians in very bad circumstances, due to environmental catastrophies, as well as US, Canadian and French imperialism, et cetera; including awful UN peace-keeping, which was anything but peace-keeping (see reporting by Kevin Pina, such as his documentaries at the longmemoryprod channel at Youtube, about US et al, including UN PK'ers actions). These weren't the only humanitarian merits of Cuba, either.
trollprepper- wow, awesome.. I bet you can't wait till it sucks that bad here
kryptiea- lol talks about planting diversity but all the pictures are nothing but monoculture.
Lario- Nice how you start the video off with a shot of a mural of Che Guevara, a communist and murderer.