An analysis of land ownership and use in Cuba, in terms of food security

Abstract

Cuba is an eminently agricultural country where land fulfills a social function and the State has control over the ownership and use of this land in order to achieve food and nutritional security. Since the triumph of the Revolution, a permanent concern of the government has been to guarantee all sectors of the population adequate food that translates into nutritional levels that guarantee the health of citizens. The purpose of this article was to characterize the existing relationships between the phenomenon of ownership and possession of land in Cuba and food and nutritional security, assuming the impact that the adequate treatment of the social function of land has on the satisfaction of people's right to food. All of the above taking into account the mandate to draft a Land Law that contemplates in its regulations the new property regime on land and on agricultural goods. Likewise, the significance of the adequate treatment of the ownership and use of land in Cuba for the strengthening of food and nutritional security was analyzed.