Cuban farmers host int’l conference
on agriculture

GÜIRA DE MELENA, Cuba — Some 200 participants attended the opening ceremony of the 5th International Conference on Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture and Cooperatives Nov. 23 at the national training school of the Cuban National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) here. Following the event, participants boarded buses to visit and talk with farmers across the island. Some 65 of the participants came from the United States, including farmworkers from Florida and farmers from Georgia, Iowa and elsewhere. Others came from Brazil, Canada, Congo, Denmark, Guadeloupe and Martinique, India, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Zimbabwe and the Basque country in Spain.

— SAM MANUEL