January 27, 2004 Global Exchange Press Release
	License, What License? -- The first Global Exchange delegation to Cuba of 2004 returned home on January 21. Ten participants from the University of Montana went to Cuba as part of the Eco Cuba program, despite federal cancellation of Global Exchange’s "People to People" license.
January 01, 2004 Monthly Review
	Food Security in Cuba -- In 1996, Via Campesina, the recently formed international umbrella organization of grassroots peasant groups, introduced the term "food sovereignty": the right of peoples and states to democratically decide their own food and agricultural policies and to produce needed foods in their own territories in a manner reinforcing the cultural values of the people while protecting the environment.
November 12, 2003 BBC News
	Cubans Plant Trees to Save Soil -- Cuban farmers are working to make good years of deforestation and soil loss by planting trees on sensitive hillsides. The government pays land workers in the south-east of the island to establish trees in designated areas - giving them a large bonus only if they survive.
November 07, 2003 Associated Press
	Cuban Sugar Plantations Turn into Farmland; Cuba Talks of Buying U.S. Sugar -- Cuba, once one of the world's largest sugar exporters, now might import the commodity from the United States as it slowly turns its old plantations into farmland.
October 25, 2003 Radio Havana Cuba
	Cuba Develops New Hydraulic Technology -- Cuba's high technical level with regard to its management of hydraulic and soil resources was acknowledged by participants at the five day Irrigation and Drainage International Congress, recently held here in Havana.
October 10, 2003 EFE via COMTEX
	Cuba tries its hand at wine making -- Cuba's popular mojitos and daiquiris may soon be competing with a wide range of wines from the island, sold in attractive bottles with labels featuring exclusive designs by well-known Cuban artists.
October 03, 2003 Granma International
	Cuban brands of organic coffee and honey -- Cuba’s agriculture is well-positioned to bring more products to the organic market, states representatives of the German firm, BCS.
September 12, 2003 Environmental News Network
	Cuba's Security in Fresh Produce -- Across the Florida Straits from Miami in the capital city of a country ranked 90th in GDP by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), students in Havana, Cuba, are munching on a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, picked by their own hands in the school garden, or grown nearby in urban organic gardens.
August 29, 2003 AIN -Cuba's National Information Association
	The United Nations qualified the Cuban model on city agriculture as very successful -- The Organization of the United Nations for Agriculture and Feeding (FAO) qualified on this day the Cuban model on city agriculture as very successful that causes a favorable result on the feeding policy of the population.

1/28/02			Policy Think Tank Releases New Report on Cuba's Successful Organic Farms -- First time any country has made the transition from chemical-intensive farming to sustainable agriculture on a national scale. (Food First Institute)
9/11/00			Community Gardens: Metropolitan Park Project -- With an eye on ecological sensitivity and sustainability, Cuba's urban farms produce crops not only for subsistence but as part of a national social and economic policy. (Oxfam Canada)
2000			Cuban Organic Agriculture Exchange Program -- The multi-author report, Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in Cuba, is largely written by Cuban experts on agricultural production, and represents the first time Cubans have made public the details of this enormous agricultural transformation. (Food First)
7/13/00			Cuba Producing, Perhaps, 'Cleanest' Food in the World -- The Cuban revolutionary threat is back. In an innocuous-looking, unmarked building in the Miramar suburb of Havana technicians from Fidel Castro's communist government are training cadres from all over Latin America. (Earth Times)
6/12/97			Cut off from global markets, Cuba invents a new agriculture -- In 1990, when trade with the socialist bloc collapsed, trade with most capitalist countries was still embargoed. Suddenly Cuba lost half its food supply and most of the fuel, fertilizer, feed, and pesticides it used to produce the other half. (Donella Meadows)
1999			Cultivating Havana: Urban Agriculture and Food Security in the Years of Crisis -- This 58-page report explains in detail the success of the urban agriculture movement in Havana as part of Cuba's national transformation to sustainable agriculture. With over 8,000 hectares of urban farms, 25,000 urban farmers, and hundreds of researchers and extension workers, Havana has become a world leader in urban agriculture. (Food First)
10/7/99			Alternative Nobel Prize Goes to Cuban Group Promoting the Organic Revolution -- The Grupo de Agricultura Organica (GAO), the Cuban organic farming association, which has been at the forefront of the country's transition from industrial to organic agriculture, was named as winner of a major international prize--the Right Livelihood Award--commonly known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize.' (Food First)
8/22/96			ACF Food Gardener Education in Urban Havana, Cuba -- Urban Community Education and Training in Agriculture, Environment and Food Security. Environmental assessment: not undertaken - ecological sustainability is underlying philosophy and ultimate objective. (Australian Conservation Foundation)