Full Name: Republic of Cuba

Capital City: Havana

Population: 11.48 million (2017)
Birth rate: 10.7 births/1,000 population (2017 est.)
Death rate: 8.7 deaths/1,000 population (2017 est.)
Life expectancy:
total population: 76.9 years
male: 78
female: 82
Government System: Communist state
President: Miguel Díaz-Canel
Economic System: socialism

● 90% of the land that is used for this purposes, has less that hectare, use traditional

techniques to work the ground, which causes that it doesn't reach its optimal

production and tha bigger benefits for the community

● Africa has 60% of the arable land of the entire world

● Just 35% of the arable land in Africa is being used for agriculture, leaving 800 million

hectares of the potential surface underused.

● Africa spends 35 billion dollars in food import, when every country in africa could

have food sovereignty.

● Only 14 of 54 countries that signed the Maputos declaration are assigning 10% of

their budget to the agricultural development, as agreed.

● The improvement of 1% in the PIB in the agricultural sector, can achieve poverty

reduction 5 times bigger than any other sector improvement.

● The world bank estimates that in 2030 the Agribusiness in africa will grow till it

becomes an industry of 1 trillion dollars.

● One person in four there is undernourished.(102 millions of people)

● 8500 children die in africa every day

Cuba’s basic information:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/cu.html
Cuba’s agriculture:
http://www.fao.org/cuba/fao-en-cuba/cuba-en-una-mirada/es/

Youth Employment in Agriculture as a Solid Solution to ending Hunger and Poverty in

Africa:

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/world/africa/2018-05-24-agriculture-marked-as-africas-
path-to-prosperity--and-dube-port-will-play-a-key-role/

http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/youth-in-agriculture/en/
http://www.fao.org/e-agriculture/news/future-africa’s-agriculture-rests-youth

Advantages and obstacles of agriculture in africa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxGwl5ZqyH0

The international community past aid to africa:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/02/23/planeta_futuro/1487865170_866161.html

Conflicts in africa
http://www.ceipaz.org/images/contenido/14.%20alejandro%20pozo.pdf

Youth in africa
https://population.un.org/wpp/

Poverty and hunger in africa

http://www.bancomundial.org/es/news/feature/2015/10/16/ending-poverty-in-a-rising-africa
https://data.worldbank.org/country

Triangular Cooperation
http://www.oecd.org/dac/dac-global-relations/triangular-cooperation.htm
https://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/Poverty%20Reduction/Development
%20Cooperation%20and%20Finance/SSC_FAQ%20v1.pdf