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Sowing Change: The Making of Havana’s Urban Agriculture

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Following the dissolution of the Soviet bloc, Cuba found itself struggling to find its place in a new geopolitical context, at the same time as coping with an unprecedented agricultural and food crisis that experts feel foreshadows the way forward for many countries across the globe. Sowing Change traces the evolution of the officially endorsed urban agriculture movement in the capital city of Havana, taking into consideration its political significance for the Cuban government and its import for transnational actors in the field of sustainable development. But the analysis does not stop at official understandings and representations of this movement. Moderately, it brings into focal point the perspectives of small-scale urban farmers–real women and men who live at the conceptual margins of the Cuban economy and struggle to balance personal needs and dreams with political ideals and government expectations, in a context where those very ideals and expectations continually shift. Sowing Change is a timely reflection at the changing agricultural, urban, and power landscapes of post-Soviet Cuba that, in any case, queries common presumptions about this socialist nation and its now famous urban agriculture experience.

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