A Real Effort in the City of Havana: Organic Urban Agriculture

In the early1990s, living conditions in Havana, the capital of Cuba, changed abruptly, with access to food becoming one of the biggest problems. For years, the city had been consuming imported farming products. Faced with this crisis, Havana had to be converted into a “productive city” that covered the majority of its population’s needs. Public and private spaces that were unoccupied were transformed into productive areas. The challenge was to allow for the coexistence of the urban population with large-scale agriculture.