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Links
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Literature

There are loads of websites about Cuba, for and against the Revolution.

A good set of links can be found at the site maintained by volunteers of Project USA/Cuba InfoMed.

Cuba's English language weekly

A list of Cuba solidarity organisations round the world

Related U.K. sites include

Cuba Solidarity Campaign campaigns for Cuba's right to sovereignty and independence. CSC, c/o Red Rose Club, 129 Seven Sisters Road, London N7 7QG. 0207 263 6452. Cubasc@gn.apc.org
Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA - the organic organisation) Europe's biggest organic gardeners organisation.
HDRA promotes, researches and demonstrates organic horticulture and agriculture in the UK. The organisation also co-ordinates an overseas programme of work with sustainable agriculture and forestry systems in developing countries. For further details contact: Esther Roycroft Boswell, HDRA, Ryton Organic Gardens, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Coventry CV8 3LG. Fax: 024 7663 9229. Tel: 024 7630 8206. Email: eroycroft@hdra.org.uk

Other groups supporting food security programmes in Cuba

Food First (The Institute for Food and Development) strong supporters of organic farming in Cuba
Lots of reports here on the organic farming situation
Food First produced The Greening of the Revolution: Cuba's experiment with organic agriculture by Peter Rosset and Medea Benjamin, published by Ocean Press. This is available from the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, or can be ordered from your local bookshop.
Cover of Greening of the Revolution

Australian permaculturists were early supporters of organic Cuba.
The Permaculture Global Assistance Network (PGAN) was the original supporter of the Green Team. Later the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) picked up the reins. Reports and photos from the Green Team work from 1995 - 1997

Oxfam America
From their magazine: ADVOCACY UPDATE (Winter 98 )
Oxfam Helping to Ease Cuba's Food Crisis by Berniece Romero

From Oxfam Canada comes
Oxfams' Work in Cuba by Cathy Holtslander, for Synergy Magazine.
Also by Cathy Holtslander:
The Metropolitan Park Project: Cuba's Organic Urban Agriculture in Action


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