Dr Julia Wright is Deputy Director of the Centre for Agroecology and Food Security, at Coventry University. She is a leading expert in Cuban farming and food systems post-1990, and has over 25 years experience in sustainable agricultural applied research and development, with a focus on the application of agroecological, organic and permaculture principles and approaches to contemporary farming issues. She has worked for government, the UN and CGIAR systems, non-government organisations and the private sector, and has worked in a broad range of countries across the world. She undertakes consultancy work, previously for the FAO, IFAD, Coventry University, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, Overseas Development Institute, Learning by Design, Garden Organic, and the Government Office for Science. She has served on the board of trustees for the Bioregional Development Group and Steering Committee of Transition Town Leamington, and is currently on the editorial board of the International Journal of Cuban Studies.

"This is a topical book, now that climate change, the end of cheap oil, growing international disparities and the untenability of the current approaches lead to the insight that business as usual is not in order. The world can learn a great deal from the way Cuba handled its food crisis." Niels Roling, Emeritus Professor, Wageningen University, The Netherlands "There is a great deal of interest in Cuba, including in its radical departure from agricultural policy norms, and in what nations will have to do in the coming years in the context of peak oil. The author has a deep experience of recent transitions in Cuba, and there will be great interest in this book." Professor Jules Pretty, University of Essex, UK "This important, well-referenced book sheds light on how agri-food systems may have to adapt to long-term oil shortages." Experimental Agriculture "This book is well worth reading for its sobering account of the Cuban experience, as well as for its critical reflection on the factors that might encourage or inhibit the success of sustainable agriculture elsewhere." Agricultural History

• Preface and Acknowledgements.  1. Cuba: Providing the Model for a Post-Petroleum Food System?  2. Post-Petroleum Food Systems: Transition and Change.  3. Researching Cuba.  4. The Historical Context: Cuban Agriculture and Food Systems of the 20th Century.  5. Life After the Crisis: The Rise of Urban Agriculture.  6. From Dependency to Greater Self-reliance: Transformation of the Cuban Food System.  7. Cuban Food Production in the 1990s: A Patchwork of Approaches.  8. Institutional Coping Strategies: Transition and Decentralization.  9. Perspectives on the Mainstreaming of Local Organic Food Systems.  10. Lessons for the Future: Cuba Ten Years On.  Appendices.  Index.

Dr Julia Wright is Deputy Director of the Centre for Agroecology and Food Security, at Coventry University. She is a leading expert in Cuban farming and food systems post-1990, and has over 25 years experience in sustainable agricultural applied research and development, with a focus on the application of agroecological, organic and permaculture principles and approaches to contemporary farming issues. She has worked for government, the UN and CGIAR systems, non-government organisations and the private sector, and has worked in a broad range of countries across the world. She undertakes consultancy work, previously for the FAO, IFAD, Coventry University, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, Overseas Development Institute, Learning by Design, Garden Organic, and the Government Office for Science. She has served on the board of trustees for the Bioregional Development Group and Steering Committee of Transition Town Leamington, and is currently on the editorial board of the International Journal of Cuban Studies.

"This is a topical book, now that climate change, the end of cheap oil, growing international disparities and the untenability of the current approaches lead to the insight that business as usual is not in order. The world can learn a great deal from the way Cuba handled its food crisis." Niels Roling, Emeritus Professor, Wageningen University, The Netherlands "There is a great deal of interest in Cuba, including in its radical departure from agricultural policy norms, and in what nations will have to do in the coming years in the context of peak oil. The author has a deep experience of recent transitions in Cuba, and there will be great interest in this book." Professor Jules Pretty, University of Essex, UK "This important, well-referenced book sheds light on how agri-food systems may have to adapt to long-term oil shortages." Experimental Agriculture "This book is well worth reading for its sobering account of the Cuban experience, as well as for its critical reflection on the factors that might encourage or inhibit the success of sustainable agriculture elsewhere." Agricultural History

• Preface and Acknowledgements.  1. Cuba: Providing the Model for a Post-Petroleum Food System?  2. Post-Petroleum Food Systems: Transition and Change.  3. Researching Cuba.  4. The Historical Context: Cuban Agriculture and Food Systems of the 20th Century.  5. Life After the Crisis: The Rise of Urban Agriculture.  6. From Dependency to Greater Self-reliance: Transformation of the Cuban Food System.  7. Cuban Food Production in the 1990s: A Patchwork of Approaches.  8. Institutional Coping Strategies: Transition and Decentralization.  9. Perspectives on the Mainstreaming of Local Organic Food Systems.  10. Lessons for the Future: Cuba Ten Years On.  Appendices.  Index.

Dr Julia Wright is Deputy Director of the Centre for Agroecology and Food Security, at Coventry University. She is a leading expert in Cuban farming and food systems post-1990, and has over 25 years experience in sustainable agricultural applied research and development, with a focus on the application of agroecological, organic and permaculture principles and approaches to contemporary farming issues. She has worked for government, the UN and CGIAR systems, non-government organisations and the private sector, and has worked in a broad range of countries across the world. She undertakes consultancy work, previously for the FAO, IFAD, Coventry University, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, Overseas Development Institute, Learning by Design, Garden Organic, and the Government Office for Science. She has served on the board of trustees for the Bioregional Development Group and Steering Committee of Transition Town Leamington, and is currently on the editorial board of the International Journal of Cuban Studies.

"This is a topical book, now that climate change, the end of cheap oil, growing international disparities and the untenability of the current approaches lead to the insight that business as usual is not in order. The world can learn a great deal from the way Cuba handled its food crisis." Niels Roling, Emeritus Professor, Wageningen University, The Netherlands "There is a great deal of interest in Cuba, including in its radical departure from agricultural policy norms, and in what nations will have to do in the coming years in the context of peak oil. The author has a deep experience of recent transitions in Cuba, and there will be great interest in this book." Professor Jules Pretty, University of Essex, UK "This important, well-referenced book sheds light on how agri-food systems may have to adapt to long-term oil shortages." Experimental Agriculture "This book is well worth reading for its sobering account of the Cuban experience, as well as for its critical reflection on the factors that might encourage or inhibit the success of sustainable agriculture elsewhere." Agricultural History

• Preface and Acknowledgements.  1. Cuba: Providing the Model for a Post-Petroleum Food System?  2. Post-Petroleum Food Systems: Transition and Change.  3. Researching Cuba.  4. The Historical Context: Cuban Agriculture and Food Systems of the 20th Century.  5. Life After the Crisis: The Rise of Urban Agriculture.  6. From Dependency to Greater Self-reliance: Transformation of the Cuban Food System.  7. Cuban Food Production in the 1990s: A Patchwork of Approaches.  8. Institutional Coping Strategies: Transition and Decentralization.  9. Perspectives on the Mainstreaming of Local Organic Food Systems.  10. Lessons for the Future: Cuba Ten Years On.  Appendices.  Index.