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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (9470)	8/28/2009 11:41:58 AM
From: abuelita	Read Replies (2) of 24224

Peak Oil? Urban Farms? Cuba's Been There, Done It What a BC gardener learned by visiting Havana. By David Tracey, Yesterday, TheTyee.ca Last year all of us were afforded a frightening glimpse of how expensive fuel can trigger a global food crisis. And then, when zooming oil prices tumbled again (for now), causing food commodity prices to drop (for now), our news media moved on. But I didn't. I became interested in Cuba as an example of how to adapt when the next, similar crisis comes -- and stays. Peak oil hit the island with a crash when the Soviet Union imploded in 1989. A food system built on false economic pretenses -- subsidized oil and fertilizers from Russia which also paid inflated prices for Cuban sugar -- suddenly disappeared. So the country with the most industrialized agricultural system in Latin America, and a farming strategy built on monocrop exports, was left to fend for itself. It didn't help when the U.S. government tightened its trade embargo in 1992. more at .... thetyee.ca

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