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Cuban Home Gardens and Their Role in Social–Ecological Resilience

Buchmann C.

Human Ecology

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Using ethnobotanical fieldwork in Trinidad de Cuba, this study shows how home gardens serve as the most adaptable local land resource, with garden composition and management adapting in response to major events such as the Soviet collapse, bolstering household food security and social-ecological resilience.