Future of Cuba's organic revolution uncertain

Cuba’s forced experiment into organic agriculture might be over, or at least change dramatically, as trade embargos loosen and a shift in that country’s leadership takes place. When the USSR collapsed in 1990, Cuba scrambled to feed its people as the flow of petrochemicals was also cut off. The country found a solution in organic agriculture, specifically in urban farming and “organiponico,” or large commercial garden allotments in which the workers get to keep 50 percent of the profits.
Full story