One Planet Agriculture #3: The Cuban Experience
First Broadcast: 17 April 2007
Featuring:
- Andre Viljoen
- Rob Newman
ONE PLANET AGRICULTURE - THE CUBAN EXPERIENCE
Climate Radio presents the third in a series of four talks recorded earlier
this year at the Soil Association annual conference looking at the impact of
peak oil on agriculture. This week urban architect André Viljoen discusses
the potential for urban centres to transform themselves into food producing
regions. This would help make urban spaces more self-sufficient lower their
carbon footprint. In particular he draws lessons from the experience of
Cuba - a country which underwent a transformation when it lost access to oil
imports after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
Since this talk runs slightly short, we are able to squeeze in an extract from a
performance by author and comedian Rob Newman (http://www.robnewman.com) on
the subject of peak oil at the very end.
View the slideshow of the presentation at:
http://www.soilassociation.org/Web/SA/saweb.nsf/cfff6730b881e40e80256a6a002a765c/902f12def991d13a80256f9c005e300e/$FILE/conference_viljoen.pps
For further info see:
http://www.soilassociation.org/oneplanetagriculture
"The Power of Community - How Cuba survived peak oil" (DVD)
http://www.communitysolution.org
Available Audio
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