May Ling Chan: May Ling Chan is CEO of Friends of the Earth-Hong
Kong. She worked with Oxfam Hong Kong in Asia and Africa for over
12 years. Her research at the Agrarian University of Havana focused
on agricultural policy, agroecology and incentive structures for
sustainable production from 2005 to 2009.
Eduardo Francisco Freyre Roach: Eduardo Francisco Freyre Roach, PhD
has been a professor at the Agrarian University of Havana for 27
years, specializing in rural sociology, sustainable agriculture and
bioethics.
This book reminds us that the only option for a small island nation
facing an inhumane embargo and devastating hurricanes, is to
embrace agroecology as a path to achieve food sovereignty and
agricultural resiliency while maintaining its political
autonomy.
CLARA I. NICHOLLS
Regional Coordinator of Red IberoAmericana de Agroecología para el
Desarrollo de Sistemas Agrícolas Resilientes al Cambio Climático
(REDAGRES) The unfinished puzzle refers to the challenge of
overcoming the Cuban agriculture paradox. Despite great
agroecological advances and with over 120,000 peasants using
sustainable methods--and producing most of the food in the
island--why does Cuba still import substantial amounts of food? and
why is the government releasing transgenic plants such as Bt corn?
Why is agroecology, considered as "alternative," and only supported
under scenarios of economic scarcity? This book, helps to address
this unfinished puzzle.
MIGUEL A. ALTIERI
President, Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology
(SOCLA)
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