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The terminal occupies the site of a previous bus terminal. Located within a city block, close to the edge of a small rural town, called Rodas. Placed like a stepping stone in a steam, it will eventually form the first of a series of such fields leading to community orchards flanking two rivers that define […]

In a few words we can tell you how to build an organoponico. Divide a site up into alternate strips, 65 cm wide for paths, 120 cm wide for raised beds. Excavate the beds to a depth of 30 cm below ground, fill with stones for drainage and build retaining walls to a height of […]

The size of urban agriculture sites in Cuba relates both to their location in the city and the type of urban agriculture practised (see Table 17.1 and Chapter 16). Organoponicos populares are the most visible type of urban agriculture, although not the largest by total area or output. They are high yield urban market gardens, […]

Urban agriculture sites tend to be found on the urban fringe and in the city centre adjacent to major through roads, see Figure 17.1. Local conditions alter the relative distribution of urban agriculture. As density of inhabitation increases, for example as found in Havana, so city centre agriculture dimin- О Urban area = Road/pathway Cuban […]

At the scale of a city one can observe the relative distribution of urban agriculture sites in relation to each other and to other urban land use. At the scale of a single urban agriculture site, layout, form and materiality can be observed, and finally, at the human scale, the edges across which interactions occur, […]

Andre Viljoen and Joe Howe The extent, infrastructural support for, and reliance placed upon urban agriculture in Cuba, means that it provides a rich source of information for the study of urban agriculture (Bourque and Canizares, 2000), (Caridad Cruz and Sanchez Medina, 2003). As such it may be considered a laboratory in which to observe […]

In Cuba the urban agriculture model implemented matches the crisis model described by Deelstra and other authors. The driving forces were the economi­cal difficulties derived from the drastic modification of economic relationships. After the crisis an alternative model was pursued and within it urban agriculture was identified early on as a means to ensure food […]

In 1991, through a strong information campaign, Havana’s city government encouraged the city’s population to use every single piece of open space in order to produce food for direct consumption. This generated an immediate response and several forms of exploitation of the open spaces within the urban frame but also of available areas within pro­ductive, […]

The presence of Chinese farmers in the outskirts of Havana during the first decades of the twentieth century is still part of Cubans’ collective memory. This practice declined probably as a consequence of the reduction of the Chinese community. It shows however that any type of UPA in Havana has had an alternate presence, especially […]

The capital city Havana covers an area of 727 km2, 0.67 per cent of the total area of Cuba. Its population growth is 1.8 per cent per year and it has about 2.2 million inhabitants, which make up 20 per cent of the Cuban population and 27 per cent of its urban population (DPPFA, 2000, […]