Cuba
What entity left the Cuban society isolated and with no materials for industrial agriculture?
Soviet Union
Name three of the main traditional export crops produced in Jamaica?
Sugar Cane, bananas, coffee, cocoa, and pimento
What is the Jamaican national fruit?
Ackee
What has been a foundational backbone for the alternative food network projects in Cuba?
The government
According to the video: Food Security: On the Cusp of Crisis in Jamaica what percentage of Jamaican are employed in the agricultural sector?
Approx. 20%
What is the ownership pattern of a Cuban suburban farm?
A mix between state and private ownership
What are the two components of the definition of “urban agriculture” in the Cuban context?
geographical and technological.
Name 2 forces threaten the production and stability of domestic goods in Jamaica?
Economic stressors & Global forces
Allen in the reading assigned for this week states that local food systems create what possibilities.
See real people, social relations, and conditions involved in food systems
What law was past that facilitated access to land and regulated the food system in Cuba?
The Law Decree 259
What kind of network does Jeffery Town, Jamaica use to further the development and sustainability of food localization?
Social networks
What is Jamaica's national motto?
Out of many, one people
As in many tropical climates, extreme weathering contributes to the rapid oxidation of organic matter. What is the average amount of organic matter in Cuban soil?
Most Cuban soil contains less than 1% of organic matter
Name 2 Constraints that threaten food localization/civic food networks in Jamaica
Floods & Droughts
Bill Mckibben in regards to his piece on Cuban diets, eliminates what concept in our current food systems?
Scale