Family Farms and the Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in Cuba

Food Security and Nature
Herausgeber: Fra Paleo, Urbano; Castiñeiras, Leonor

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This highly original volume investigates and documents the complex interactions between small family farms and Man and Biosphere Reserves in Cuba.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781138735712
• ISBN-10: 113873571X
• Artikelnr.: 59995304

Autorenporträt

Urbano Fra Paleo is a retired Professor of Human Geography from the University of Extremadura, Spain. He is a member of the European Science and Technology Group (E-STAG), United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR); Honorary Research Fellow of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Senior Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project, and Member of the Academia Europaea. Leonor Castiñeiras is a biologist with a PhD in Agricultural Sciences. She worked as Scientific Researcher leading the Plant Genetic Resources Unit at the Instituto de Investigaciones Fundamentales en Agricultura Tropical Alejandro de Humboldt (INIFAT) in La Habana, Cuba. She has coordinated various international projects in partnership with Bioversity International (formerly IPGRI) on the characterization of genetic resources with particular focus on traditional varieties and their seed systems.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Cuban Archipelago: Biological diversity, ecosystems and landscapes
José Manuel Guzmán Menéndez
2. The System of National Reserves in Cuba: Conserving biodiversity and
ecosystem services
Carlos Gallardo Toirac, Augusto de Jesús Martínez Zorrilla, José Augusto
Valdés Pérez and Dalia Salabarría Fernández
3. The western mountains: The Sierra del Rosario Biosphere Reserve
Fidel Hernández Figueroa, Jorge Luis Zamora Martín and Damaysa Arzola
Delgado
4. The eastern mountains: Cuchillas del Toa Biosphere Reserve
Gerardo Begué-Quiala, Geovanys Rodríguez Cobas, Hayler M. Pérez Trejo and
Rey F. Guarat Planche
5. The lagoons: Peninsula de Guanahacabibes Biosphere Reserve
Lázaro Márquez Llauger, José Alberto Camejo Lamas, Osmani Borrego Fernández
and Lázaro Márquez Govea
6. On the edge of Sierra Maestra: Baconao Biosphere Reserve
Giraldo Acosta Alcolea
7. Nature's Matrix: The quality of managed and natural landscapes
Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer
8. The background of international projects on agrobiodiversity in Cuba
Leonor Castiñeiras, Tomás Shagarodsky, Pablo Eyzaguirre and Toby Hodgkin
9. Measuring farm environmental sustainability in the Sierra del Rosario
Biosphere Reserve
Gaia Gullotta, Nadia Bergamini, Paola De Santis, Alejandro González
Álvarez, Jorge Luis Zamora Martín, José Manuel Guzmán Menéndez, Nicola
Tormen and Enrico Ruzzier
10. Ecosystem services in agrobiodiversity and family farms: Indicators of
social and ecological resilience
Alejandro González Álvarez, Nadia Bergamini, Dunja Mijatovic and Yanisbell
Sánchez Rodríguez
11. Family farms as innovative living labs in agroecology and transfer of
knowledge
Madeleine Kaufmann, Alejandro González Álvarez, Alberto Tarraza and
Alessandra Giuliani
12. The conuco in Cuban agricultural systems and its contribution to
agrobiodiversity
Alejandro González Álvarez, Parviz Koohafkhan and Tomás Shagarodsky
13. Urban agriculture: A view from Cuba
Noel J. Arozarena Daza, Yanisbell Sánchez Rodríguez, Maribel
González-Chávez Díaz and Juan A. Soto Mena
14. Cuba's farming market: Opportunities for development
Michely Vega León, Luis Sáez Tonacca, José Puente Nápoles and Maribel
González-Chávez Díaz
15. Valorisation of products and services from Biosphere Reserves of Cuba
Maribel González-Chávez Díaz, Michely Vega León, Luis Sáez Tonacca and
Yanisbell Sánchez Rodríguez
16. Voices of the farmers: Representations of sustainable farming and
agrobiodiversity
Celia Cabrera Ibáñez, Alejandro González Álvarez, Lázaro Lorenzo Ravelo and
Zoraida Mendive