Resistance & Resilience: Responses to the Climate Crisis from Cuba & Puerto Rico (Session 3: Agrifood Systems)

Event time: 
Thursday, December 17, 2020 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
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Event description: 

Resistance & Resilience: Responses to the Climate Crisis from Cuba & Puerto Rico (Session 3: Agrifood Systems)
In Spanish, with English interpretation
Industrial agrifood systems are a key driver of the climate crisis and require systemic transformation. We will hear how farmers, communities, researchers, and governments are building local, just and resilient agriculture and food systems through social processes, on farm innovations, and policies that
support agroecology and food sovereignty:
Giraldo Martín Martín, Pasture Forage Experimental Station Indio Hatuey, Cuba
Sonia Alvarez Pineda & Luis Vasquez, Cuban Association of Agronomists & Foresters (ACTAF), Cuba
Ana Elisa Pérez-Quintero, La Colmena Cimmarona, Vieques, Puerto Rico
Georges Felix, Center for Agroecology, Water, & Resilience, Coventry University, Puerto Rico
Moderated by Margarita Fernández Pérez, Caribbean Agroecology Institute & Cuba-US Agroecology Network.
For information and to register, please visit: www.caribbeanagroecology.org. For questions, please contact Devin Osborne at devin.osborne@yale.edu.