Agroecology Movement Addresses Challenges of Food Security, by Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero

Vendors at the organic farmers' market in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Courtesy: Tillie Castellano.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, May 21 2014 (IPS) - Agriculture in this Caribbean island is going through its worst moment. Whereas this sector accounted for 71 percent of its gross domestic product in 1914, now it amounts to no more than one percent. 

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