Etiqueta: caribbean
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Panel addresses social elements of food security
Oprima aquí para leer en español. Below you can watch the panel’s recording. Click here to access all the plenaries and panels of the conference. On April 19, a panel composed of four voices from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands addressed the issue of food security at the 3rd Caribbean Climate Change Conference. Social,…
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Politics of Adequacy in Food Access in Cuba
This review was published in Food, Culture, and Society online on June 2020. Even though Cuba is constricted by the US blockade and embargo, and was severed by the fall of the Soviet Union―on which it depended for trade and imports―the island is regarded as an example of sustainable food systems, of doing a lot…
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Decolonizing the Caribbean Diet: Two Perspectives on Possibilities and Challenges
You can read the full article here. This piece was published in a special issue of the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development titled Indigineous Food Sovereingty in North America. Vol 9 NO B (2019). I acknowledge Vanessa García Polanco for being a great mentor and inviting me to contribute this piece she…
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From Ocean to Table: Integrating Marine and Coastal Food Systems into Food Studies
This paper was published in a special edited collection, Cite This, of the Graduate Journal of Food Studies. Click here to read the full paper. It is common to hear and read the phrases “farm to table” or “farm to plate” in food systems discussions and scholarship. Less common, is to encounter “ocean to table” or “ocean to plate.” As scholars,…
Luis Alexis Rodríguez Cruz, PhD 