Posts Tagged ‘grassroots innovation’
Organoponicos: Thriving Urban Agriculture in Cuba
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 16:15 2 CommentsThe BBC Two’s Future of Food recently published an article entitled ‘The vegetable gardeners of Havana’. In the article Sarah Murch explains how a major food crisis in Cuba, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, gave birth to Havana’s organoponicos, urban allotments used for growing vegetables and fruit. Today, organiponico’s produce 4 million tonnes [...]














