Urban, suburban and family agriculture in Cuba. Consumers' perceptions
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This work aims to analize the rol of Urban, Suburban and Familiar Agriculture System in Cuba to satisfy food needs of the cuban population, from the consumer’s perspective. For this, was applied a survey to 207 consumers from six municipalities, in three selected provinces. It was demostrated that this system represents an important source of food acquisition for the cuban people, with a satisfaction rate of over 70%, although near a quarter of the consumers said to be very little or not satisfied with the products marketed. The fact that the system provides fresh, healthy and varied products, was highly evaluated, and almost 80 % of the sample considered that it decreases the community dependence from external, far away markets. Between the reasons to keep and improve the urban agriculture system in the vicinities, the posibility to get products that the people prefers has the highest percentage, although the variety, quality and affordable prices are also highly valued by the participants of this poll.
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