Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Category : Sugar growing
Languages : en
Pages : 14

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Author: Jorge F. Pérez-López
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739110003
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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One of the key issues that faces Cuban policymakers today, and will continue to face them, is what steps to take in order to ensure the future of the sugar industry. In 2002, nearly one-half of the country's cultivated land was occupied by the 156 fully functional sugar mills, more than a dozen plants and refineries, and the complex transportation infrastructure brought about by the commerce. The loss of preferential markets for Cuban sugar that arose from the demise of the international socialist community constitutes a crisis that the Cuban government has only begun to address, with a radical restructuring plan that would foresee the reduction of sugar land and the elimination of about 100,000 jobs, for increased economic emphasis on tourism. The radical premise of this volume is that there is a future in the twenty-first century for a reinvented Cuban sugar agroindustry, responsive to market signals, organized around smaller and more agile production units, producing raw sugar as well as high value-added outputs, and using some of the facilities to produce ethanol and generate electricity. The editors have asked over a dozen recognized world experts on Cuban agroindustry to analyze specific topics and make recommendations that would not only reinvent an industry for effective transition to a free-market environment but that has the potential to reinvigorate the Cuban economy, providing employment opportunities and generating wealth for generations of Cubans to come.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Category : Resource allocation
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1100

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Author: United States Cuban Sugar Council
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Category : Sugar trade
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Author: May Ling Chan
Publisher: Food First Books
ISBN: 0935028404
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Cuba is widely recognized for its social achievements including health care, education, social security, subsidized food and other benefits and opportunities, despite well-meaning, or sometimes not so well-meaning, international criticisms. For more than 50 years, this Caribbean island has defended and sustained these economic, political, social and cultural gains, and has maintained a commitment to humanitarianism and international solidarity that persists to this day. Part one of Unfinished Puzzle describes the socioeconomic context of Cuban agriculture, the natural environment that affect it and the international political context in which it has developed. Part two explores the unique agricultural policies Cubans implemented to confront the food and economic crises of the early 1990s. Finally, part three examines the lessons to be learned from the Cuban experience with respect to local development, sustainable agriculture, agroecology, food security and food sovereignty. It highlights the elements of the Cuban system most suitable for replication in other countries facing similar circumstances or challenges.

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Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 790

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Includes history of bills and resolutions.