Cuba
Mat Werner (werner@zzyx.UCSC.EDU)
Mon, 4 Apr 1994 16:10:42 -0700
Hello Dick,
Yes, I read the Cuba issue of Ag & Human Values ans was very interested. In
fact I just visited Cuba, as part of a sustainable ag fact-finding delegation
with Paul Gersper of UC-Berkeley and a varied assortment of 2 dozen other
US Americans. The Cubans are hungry, and they are doing some very inspiring
things to respond to the crisis. Levin's comments were instructive because
they gave me a historical context for what is happening in Cuba. Apparently
the ecological movement has been growing for some time in Cuba, and conditions
in the past 5 years have pushed that movement into the forefront of Cuba's
desperate efforts to survive. I hope they can make it, because what they are
doing right now can provide a model for the rest of the world. So that when
we hit our crisis...
I am interested in conntinuing a dialog with other folks who are following
Cuban agriculture and environmentalism. Keep in "touch"
Matt Werner
UCSC Agroecology Program
PS. as a soil biologist, my big interest in Cuba was vermiculture, which the
Cubans are conducting on a large scale to replace lost fertilizers. I was very
impressed.