December 01, 2003 Cuba Today
	Cuba Enters the Market for Organic Products -- For the first time, Cuba has secured certification to export four lines of organic agricultural produce-coffee, cacao, honey, and citrus fruits-to Europe and Japan.
November 10, 2003 Duke Chronicle
	Cuba May Open Sugar Market to North Carolina Firm -- Cuba's state-based import company announced last week that it is considering opening up its sugar market to P.S. International, a trading company based in Chapel Hill.
November 05, 2003 MSNBC
	Cuba in Talks to Buy U.S. Sugar -- Cuba, the world's eighth largest sugar producer, is in talks to buy sugar from the United States for its domestic market, the president of the Cuban food import agency Alimport, Pedro Alvarez, said on Wednesday.
October 10, 2003 Agencia EFE
	Cuba Tries Its Hand at Wine Making -- Cuban wines are being marketed by two companies, both joint enterprises between the Cuban government and European firms.
October 09, 2003 Granma International
	Cuba and Indiana Sign Memorandum for the Purchase of Food -- A memorandum of intent has been signed between the Alimport company of Cuba and the Agricultural Office of the state of Indiana to buy $15 million worth of foodstuffs.
October 03, 2003 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
	U.S. Says No to Second Food Show in Cuba -- The U.S. State and Treasury departments turned down a request by 10 U.S. senators, including Arkansas' Blanche Lincoln, to hold a second U.S. food exhibition in Cuba because of the nation's "recent repressive actions."
October 03, 2003 Granma International
	Cuban Brands of Organic Coffee and Honey -- For the first time Cuba will start exporting packaged organic foods, starting soon with brands of coffee and honey.
September 30, 2003 Associated Press
	U.S. Farm Group to Sell Products to Cuba -- A leading U.S. farm cooperative said Tuesday it will sell another $8 million in corn and soy to Cuba, while Iowa officials said they will try to increase sales of their state's agricultural goods to the communist island.
September 03, 2003 Radio Havana Cuba
	Environmental Activists Say World Trade Organization Policies Trigger Desertification -- While twenty heads of state and over 110 ministers gather in Havana for a key United Nations conference on Desertification, Friends of the Earth International has alerted them of the desertification that is triggered by World Trade Organization policies and the potential impacts of the trade negotiations on drylands that are currently taking place within the WTO.