Acción colectiva y cooperativismo en la agricultura cubana

Abstract

On the base of a research project of collaboration between Germán and Cuban universities, this article analyzes the implementation of cooperativist models in 1993 and the later development of the UBPC (basic unities of cooperative production) in the Cuban agriculture. Firstly, his author analyses the structural problems of the Cuban farming sector and the food dependency of Cuba as a heritage rece i ved by the Castrist revolution. Secondly, he analyses the unsuccessful 1989 Food Program, seeing there the reasons of the reforms implemented in 1993 in the farming sector, which are called by some authors "the new agricultural reform". Finally, the author ofFers some personal reflections on the posibilities of consolidations of the UBPCs in Cuba, and he poses the need of a new agricultural policy that supports this new fomi of cooperativism as fundamental factor of the development of the Cuban rural society.