Isis Salcines, one of the leaders of the Organopónico Vivero Alamar, discusses their farming operation with representatives from Florida agricultural and natural resource industries and UF/IFAS faculty during the 2015 University of Florida/IFAS Wedgworth Leadership Alumni delegation trip to tour Cuban agriculture. Organopónico Vivero Alamar outside of Havana is one of Cuba’s largest and most successful urban agriculture sites. “Organopónicos” or urban (quasi-organic) farms were introduced in the early 1990s following the loss of critically important Soviet subsidies after the dissolution of the former Soviet Union. They have been important contributors to Cuba’s domestic food supplies. Photograph by Fred Royce. Guest curators Fred Royce and William Messina.
