Peasantry and State in Milk Production in Cuba

Productive Forms, Technological Matrix, and Supply

Bibliographic Data

ID22326387
AuthorsFrancis Vilas Novas Lages Guedes (0000-0002-6653-8837, Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform), Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Machado Filho (0000-0002-8182-8365, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), Ilyas Siddique (0000-0002-0519-2086, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), Pedro Pablo del Pozo Rodríguez (0000-0002-7620-4910, Agricultural University of Havana)
Year2026
Volume17
Issue2
Publication date2026-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Cuban Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1756-3461 • E-ISSN: 1756-347X
PublisherPluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.13169/intejcubastud.17.2.0005
OpenAlexW7119496811
LanguageEN
References cited18

After the Cuban Revolution, dualities were established between the productive forms of agriculture considered appropriate to each historical moment. Another contradiction was generated by the technological matrices and their relationships with different productive forms. The milk supply has been a priority since 1959, with intense efforts developed on large state farms. Even with the attempt to produce on pasture, the conventional model prevailed. The “agroecological revolution” occurred during the Special Period after 1990, among peasants. Simultaneously, however, agroecological dairy farming was attempted on state farms. The participation of the non-state sector in agricultural production increased greatly from the 1990s onwards, with state agricultural production remaining important, even though now secondary. In this work, both peasant fincas and state-owned vaquerías are studied in terms of dairy farming, social reproduction, and agroecology. They are characterised and differentiated from production, economic, social, and organisational perspectives. Evaluating the interrelations between the productive forms, scale, and the technological matrix helps to identify a productive, socioeconomic, and technological strategy for the sustainable supply of milk

Agricultural productivity · Agriculture · Agroecology · Dairy farming · Peasant · Technological change · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Cuban History and Society · Land Rights and Reforms

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