The special period in Cuba led to a number of challenges to agriculture, and so cuba was forced to develop an environmental politics by accident. They are actually very good and effective at small scale organic farming, which a number of european academics have studies, so it is not just Cuban state stats. However, this is also the area of the cuban economy that is most liberalised (there is far more produce and far higher quality at the capitalist farmers markets I visited in Havana than in the state ration shops), so whether it is the capitalism or a good scientific management of this that has created this efficiency is up for debate.
However, if anyone can make a contribution to creating an environmental politics here in the DR (other than the small, volcal lobby that wants to create national parks everywhere) that would be most welcome.
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