?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Organic+agriculture+in+Cuba%3A+The+revolution+goes+green&rft.creator=Kilcher%2C+Lukas&rft.subject=Fruit+and+berries&rft.subject=Cuba&rft.description=Agriculture+in+post-revolutionary+Cuba+is+based+on+large-scale%2C+capital-intensive+and+labour-extensive+monocultures.+In+order+to+sustain+these%2C+the+island+continually+imported+fertilizers%2C+pesticides+and+diesel+at+subsidized+prices+from+the+former+Soviet+economic+aid+community%2C+COMECOM.+Since+this+collapsed+in+the+early+1990s%2C+Cuba+has+suffered+from+an+acute+shortage+of+raw+materials.+At+the+same+time%2C+the+main+sales+market+for+Cuban+agricultural+production+has+disappeared.+Given+this+situation%2C+agriculture+in+Cuba+faces+multiple+challenges%3A+Firstly+Cuba+needs+to+find+new+customers%2C+practically+overnight.+Secondly%2C+its+agricultural+producers+must+learn+to+manage+with+the+little+that+they+themselves+have.+Thirdly%2C+Cuba+needs+financial+resources+to+renovate+its+often+out-of-date+production+facilities.&rft.date=2001&rft.type=Journal+paper&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Forgprints.org%2F2914%2F1%2Fkilcher-2001-cuba.pdf&rft.identifier=Kilcher%2C+Lukas+(2001)+Organic+agriculture+in+Cuba%3A+The+revolution+goes+green.+Journal+of+Agriculture+in+the+Tropics+and+Subtropics%2C+102+(2)%2C+pp.+185-189.+[+Unpublished%2C+]&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Forgprints.org%2F2914%2F