Havana's self-provision gardens

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 127-133

  Moskow, Angela ^a,b  

^a Univ of California Genetic Rsrc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD SUPPLY; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; SELF SUFFICIENCY; URBAN AGRICULTURE;

CUBA; HAVANA;

EID: 0033385264     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1630/095624799101284922     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Torres, Rebecca (1996), Cuban Agromarket Study (untitled draft), Geography Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, CA.
2. Deere, Carmen Diana, Niurka Pérez and Ernel Gonzalez (1994), "The view from below; Cuban agriculture in the special period in peacetime," Journal of Peasant Studies Vol.21, No.2, pages 194-234.
3. Pastor, Jr., Manuel and Andrew Zimbalist (1995), "Cuba's economic conundrum", NACLA Report on the Americas Vol.39, pages 2-8.
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5. Paez Medina, Egidio, Cuban Ministry of Agriculture (1995), interview, Havana, Cuba.
6. The research was conducted for a Master's thesis at the International Agricultural Development Graduate Group at the University of California, Davis, with funding from the Oberlin College Alumni Fund's Henry J. Haskell Fellowship, the Jastro-Shields Graduate Research Scholarship Fund and the International Agricultural Development Graduate Group. Interviews were conducted by the author and Ana Himeley who provided translation assistance and background information in conducting and transcribing the audio taped interviews.
7. The neighbourhoods of Los Angeles, Zayas, Pogolotti and Alturas de Belem were assigned the first category with Alamar assigned to the second category and Playa, Santa Fe, Diezmero and La Lisa assigned to the third category.
8. Paez Medina, Egidio, Cuban Ministry of Agriculture (1995), interview, Havana, Cuba.
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11. Chaplowe, Scott (1996), Havana's Popular Gardens and the Cuban Food Crisis, Master's thesis, Geography Graduate Group, University of California Los Angeles.
12. Paez Medina, Egidio, Cuban Ministry of Agriculture (1995), interview, Havana, Cuba.
13. Guanacos are similar to llamas.
14. Consejo de Administración de la Provincia de la Ciudad de la Havana (1995).
15. Marsh, Robin, senior research associate, North American Integration and Development Centre, University of California, Los Angeles, August, 1996, interview, El Cerrito, CA.
16. Rosset, Peter and Medea Benjamin (editors) (1994), The Greening of the Revolution, Ocean Press, Melbourne, Australia.
17. See reference 16.