UF/IFAS Dr. Frederick Royce (right) when he was conducting graduate field research in Cuba in 1996. Also in the photo is Dr. Brian Pollitt (Univ of Glasgow, left) and cooperative vice-president Victor Franco (center) at sugarcane production cooperative (CPA) “Revolución de Etiopía,” Ciego de Avila Province, Cuba. Dr. Royce’s thesis “Cooperative agricultural operations management on a Cuban sugarcane farm: ‘…and everything gets done anyway’ ” was based on truly unique, extensive field research conducted on Cuban sugarcane cooperatives, and he has been a key and essential member of the University of Florida/IFAS-University of Havana collaborative research project on agriculture and natural resource issues. Photograph by Fred Royce. Guest curators Fred Royce and William Messina.