Cuba has begun lending unused land to private farmers and cooperatives as part of a sweeping effort to step up agricultural production, a small but potentially landmark step that could change the face
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The U.S. embargo comes in the way of protecting Cuba's rich ecological resources.
The island's mountains, forests, swamps, coasts and marine areas are rich in plants and animals, some seen nowhere else. Once the embargo ends, it could face a flood of investors from the U.S. and elsewhere, eager to exploit them.
Agriculture and food systems play an important role in fossil fuel consumption and climate change because of their significant energy use and because of agriculture
recently the Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, denounced us president George Bush's new-found fondness for biofuels. Food stocks for millions would be threatened, Castro warned. The octogenarian
Global patterns of funding clearly show that medical education remains very much a state-dominated sector. In countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
