Food Programme - Cuba

Sheila Dillon learns about how Cuban agriculture coped after the support they had received from the USSR dried up and what their experimentation with self sufficiency, organics and sustainable agriculture can teach the UK. What changes had to take place in the Cuban diet to make use of the food they could grow rather than the imports they had relied on? Sheila talks to Julia Wright about her book assessing the Cuban experiment, its success as a model of organic food production and what lessons can be learned by the UK. She also speaks to Professor Jules Pretty about the work being undertaken in the UK to address the issues of declining oil production and sustainability.