Cuba: La crisis de los noventa y el tránsito hacia un nuevo modelo tecnológico en la agricultura

• Main Author: María de los A. Arias Guevara
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Paraná 2006-01-01
• Series: Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente
• Subjects: the crisis of the 90’s in Cuba and the local agriculture; the search of agroecological alternatives to face the crisis; the transit to a new model of development in rural spaces.
• Online Access: http://ojs.c3sl.ufpr.br/ojs2/index.php/made/article/viewFile/9690/8383
• ISSN: 1518-952X; 2176-9109

The present article focuses on the Cuban experience in its transition to a new technological-organizational model with an agroecological basis. It is due to the crisis that the country faced in the 90´s in the last century when the context of its international relations changed Thus, there was a lessening in the stateenterprise oriented agriculture implemented in the country after the application of the implementation of the Agrarian Reform. Sustainability is conceived from a more integral perspective including not only agroecological factors but also some economic and social ones. The project concludes that a transition towards a new model is starting and that the strategy adapted is not already finished. The objective is to evaluate the search of agroecological alternatives to face the crisis of the technological model. Accordingly, new ways are demanded from the social actors to live and participate as development agents considering rural spaces.