Cuba • Dominican Republic • Haiti
Places of Memory of the Slave Route in the Latin Caribbean
A project of the UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean
Cuba • Agriculture • Urban Areas
Growing greener cities: Havana
FAO report on urban and peri-urban agriculture
Expanding Financing for Biodiversity Conservation
Experiences from Latin American and the Caribbean
Cuba • Food Security • Agriculture
Cuba: Going Against the Grain — Agricultural Crisis and Transformation
Analysis of changes to Cuban agriculture in the wake of that country's economic crisis of the 1990s
Economic overview
The Cuban economy grew by 3.0% in 2013; below the government’s forecast at the beginning of the year and identical to the 2012 figure. This outcome reflects a context of slower growth across most of Europe, which accounts for a significant proportion of the country’s tourist arrivals.
Falling nickel prices also caused a dip in external revenue, which tightened the external constraints on growth, exacerbating the effects of the economic, commercial and financial embargo, which remains in force. On the domestic front, GDP growth was held back by a rate of investment that remains far less than envisaged by the government, and which despite rising to 8%, is nonetheless insufficient to counteract Cuba’s technological obsolescence. (Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2013)