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World Service,25 Mar 1997,14 mins

Organopónicos: Urban Agriculture in Cuba

The Farming World

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When events in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s cut off imports of agrochemicals and food to Cuba, a popular urban gardening movement started to grow food in organopónicos. It now has state backing.

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