When Cuba faced lost trade relations with the Soviet Bloc
in the early 1990s, food production collapsed due to the loss
of imported fertilizers, pesticides, tractors, parts, and petroleum. Cuba posted the worst growth in per capita
food production in Latin America. But the
island rapidly re-oriented its agriculture to become a world-class case of ecological
agriculture. Cuba rebounded to show the
best food production performance in Latin America over
the following period, a remarkable annual growth rate of 4.2 percent
per capita, a period in which the regional
average was 0 percent.
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