Among Cuba's greatest achievements is its organic farming sector, writes Miguel Altieri. Developed in the 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union, small agroecological farms now employ 300,000 campesinos and provide an abundance of healthy fruit and vegetables. But now US food and agribusiness corporations are eyeing up a multi-billion dollar business opportunity.
… of transgenic crops and agrofuels in Brazil , Paraguay and Bolivia since the 1990s … that they have lost to the European Union and Brazil. There is broad debate over how heavily …