Family Farms and the Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in Cuba: Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity

1. The Cuban Archipelago: Biological diversity, ecosystems and landscapes
José Manuel Guzmán Menéndez

2. The System of National Reserves in Cuba: Conserving biodiversity and ecosystem services
Carlos Gallardo Toirac, Augusto de Jesús Martínez Zorrilla, José Augusto Valdés Pérez and Dalia Salabarría Fernández

3. The western mountains: The Sierra del Rosario Biosphere Reserve
Fidel Hernández Figueroa, Jorge Luis Zamora Martín and Damaysa Arzola Delgado

4. The eastern mountains: Cuchillas del Toa Biosphere Reserve
Gerardo Begué-Quiala, Geovanys Rodríguez Cobas, Hayler M. Pérez Trejo and Rey F. Guarat Planche

5. The lagoons: Peninsula de Guanahacabibes Biosphere Reserve
Lázaro Márquez Llauger, José Alberto Camejo Lamas, Osmani Borrego Fernández and Lázaro Márquez Govea

6. On the edge of Sierra Maestra: Baconao Biosphere Reserve
Giraldo Acosta Alcolea

7. Nature’s Matrix: The quality of managed and natural landscapes
Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer

8. The background of international projects on agrobiodiversity in Cuba
Leonor Castiñeiras, Tomás Shagarodsky, Pablo Eyzaguirre and Toby Hodgkin

9. Measuring farm environmental sustainability in the Sierra del Rosario Biosphere Reserve
Gaia Gullotta, Nadia Bergamini, Paola De Santis, Alejandro González Álvarez, Jorge Luis Zamora Martín, José Manuel Guzmán Menéndez, Nicola Tormen and Enrico Ruzzier

10. Ecosystem services in agrobiodiversity and family farms: Indicators of social and ecological resilience
Alejandro González Álvarez, Nadia Bergamini, Dunja Mijatovic and Yanisbell Sánchez Rodríguez

11. Family farms as innovative living labs in agroecology and transfer of knowledge
Madeleine Kaufmann, Alejandro González Álvarez, Alberto Tarraza and Alessandra Giuliani

12. The conuco in Cuban agricultural systems and its contribution to agrobiodiversity
Alejandro González Álvarez, Parviz Koohafkhan and Tomás Shagarodsky

13. Urban agriculture: A view from Cuba
Noel J. Arozarena Daza, Yanisbell Sánchez Rodríguez, Maribel González-Chávez Díaz and Juan A. Soto Mena

14. Cuba’s farming market: Opportunities for development
Michely Vega León, Luis Sáez Tonacca, José Puente Nápoles and Maribel González-Chávez Díaz

15. Valorisation of products and services from Biosphere Reserves of Cuba
Maribel González-Chávez Díaz, Michely Vega León, Luis Sáez Tonacca and Yanisbell Sánchez Rodríguez

16. Voices of the farmers: Representations of sustainable farming and agrobiodiversity
Celia Cabrera Ibáñez, Alejandro González Álvarez, Lázaro Lorenzo Ravelo and Zoraida Mendive

Urbano Fra Paleo is a retired Professor of Human Geography from the University of Extremadura, Spain. He is a member of the European Science and Technology Group (E-STAG), United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR); Honorary Research Fellow of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Senior Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project, and Member of the Academia Europaea.
Leonor Castiñeiras is a biologist with a PhD in Agricultural Sciences. She worked as Scientific Researcher leading the Plant Genetic Resources Unit at the Instituto de Investigaciones Fundamentales en Agricultura Tropical Alejandro de Humboldt (INIFAT) in La Habana, Cuba. She has coordinated various international projects in partnership with Bioversity International (formerly IPGRI) on the characterization of genetic resources with particular focus on traditional varieties and their seed systems.