Food Security, Industrialized Agriculture, and a Changing Global Climate: Perspectives on the United States and Cuba

This Article outlines the challenges of feeding a growing population in a time of climate change and in the shadow of the risks presented by industrialized agriculture. Part II presents an overview of current food insecurity and explores the likely exacerbation that will result from the impacts of climate change. Part III compares the evolution of agricultural systems in the United States and Cuba. This part also examines the environmental harms caused by industrialized agriculture in the United States and the limited protection offered by U.S. environmental law to protect against these harms.

This part then turns to the evolution of agroecology in Cuba and examines the benefits of the system as they relate to climate change and food security. The Article concludes with a discussion of how Cuba, through its highly developed agroecology, is poised to be a world leader in climate resilient agriculture with a low carbon economy.