Food Crisis In Cuba

The island nation Cuba , was in the rank of the two Latin American nutritional once . But , now , I have been suffering from food crisis . Person of the city 's better live than rural areas in Latin America for most , Cuba is without a clear contrast with it . Products that meet the basic nutrition even though is a lack of food stores in urban residents rely , small farmers who Cuba , he has got a staple food grains and basic .

Visit the Havana in October and in May 1998 , I , I went to the store . But the shelf was almost empty . It was possible to get the product in the farmers market of Havana suburb , but the people who are dependent on Cuba local currency had to mouth the complaints " too expensive " he said. Only lucky people you have access to your foreign currency , he can afford to put the additional gain in the diet .

The pre-revolutionary Cuba had been imported from the United States for most of the food . After the revolution in 1959 , food shortages became a certainty because of the decline in domestic agricultural production and reduction of food imports . However , the new government of Cuba , promised food to all people , had provided the food rationing system a certain price at a low price in 1961 . Even after the relationship with the United States is broken , Cuba was able to enjoy the very favorable terms of trade with the Soviet Union . In 1987 , 63 percent of all food imports , more than 80% of foreign trade was one of the Soviet bloc .

However , a serious economic crisis appears Soviet bloc when the collapse once in 1989 . Drop in imports essential to agricultural production is why the first , but domestic food production was reduced to 40% . Food distribution is decreased , intake of protein was also red...

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...on of the other , imports from other countries are also in the way . The Oxfam , under the belief policy of the United States the current , and that exacerbated the crisis of Cuba , is promoting legislation actively to exclude the sale of food and medicine from the embargo . It is two efforts for female children act of the Senate Cuba Cuba and democratization trade laws that have been proposed in the House of Representatives , loosen a ban on the sale of food and medicine in the United States against Cuba .

Experiments of food production and sustainable ecological , Cuba , provides an alternative model that can be applied anywhere in the world . By using to support the practice of the community , and pressure is applied in order to change the policy of the United States , Oxfam is , he hopes that corresponds to the crisis of Cuba now that will not in the future .