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Urban Food Production

Urban food production is one of the best strategies for reducing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and to learn about sustainable practises.
When supplies of cheap fossil fuels (oil, coal, gas) were cut off from Cuba during the Special Period (1990-2000) the population reverted to organic and permaculture farming practises both in cities and in rural areas. Collectively they were able to reduce per capita GHG emissions to 4 tonnes per person per year.
They did this by composting organic waste material, planting nitrogen fixing cover crops, and using more human labour inputs to help manage local food production. Organic, regenerative and permaculture food production techniques were widely practised as presented in the documentary film The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

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+* Urban food production is one of the best strategies for reducing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and to learn about sustainable practises.
+* When supplies of cheap fossil fuels (oil, coal, gas) were cut off from Cuba during the Special Period (1990-2000) the population reverted to organic and permaculture farming practises both in cities and in rural areas. Collectively they were able to reduce per capita GHG emissions to 4 tonnes per person per year.
+* They did this by composting organic waste material, planting nitrogen fixing cover crops, and using more human labour inputs to help manage local food production. Organic, regenerative and permaculture food production techniques were widely practised as presented in the documentary film [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Community:_How_Cuba_Survived_Peak_Oil The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil]