Tournament: Woodward | Round: 1 | Opponent: Posting 1AC | Judge:
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Contention 1: The Status Quo
Current US embargo hinders the development and expansion of the Cuban agriculture model. Current Cuban economic environment undermines the model
FRANK, Reuters Havana Reporter, Tue Jul 30, 2013
(MARC, Cuba reports little progress five years into agricultural reform, Reuters, http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/07/30/uk-cuba-reform-agriculture-idUKBRE96T0VK20130730, Accessed: 12/3/13, CD)
(Reuters) - Agriculture in Cuba ...and other supplies.
Cuba only exists as a US export market now
Copeland et al, Division of Economics and Business Administration, Oglethorpe University, 2011 (Jolly, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology,Thompson, Economics, 202 Comer Hall, Auburn University, The History and Potential of Trade between Cuba and the US, Journal of Economics and Business, 2011, http://www.auburn.edu/~thomph1/cubahistory.pdf, Accessed: 1/23/14, CD)
A significant change ... port in Mobile.
Plan
The United States federal government should normalize bilateral agriculture trade with Cuba.
Contention 2: No Free Lunch
The Current US industrial Agriculture practices are unsustainable for the environment and overall food security globally
PETERS, University of Arkansas School of Law, Graduate Program in Agricultural and Food Law; J.D. 2010
( KATHRYN A. ,University of Oregon School of Law, 2010, Creating a Sustainable Urban Agriculture Revolution, Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, http://law.uoregon.edu/org/jell/docs/251/peters.pdf, Accessed: 10/12/13, CD)
The U.S. agricultural ... declining crop yields.25
We isolate two scenarios resulting from the hegemony of industrial agriculture:
First, food insecurity -
International food system on brink of collapse—scarcity is the new norm, US provided global food supply cushion necessary to stave off violence and conflict through the world
Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, 11
(Lester R.“The New Geopolitics of Food,” http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/25/the_new_geopolitics_of_food, Accessed 9/6/12, JA)
In the United ... started to unravel.
Second, environmental collapse
Industrial agriculture is the primary cause of global warming – extinction is inevitable without a greater diffusion of organic agricultural practices
Ronnie Cummins, International Director of the Organic Consumers Association, 10/7/10
(Agriculture and Human Survival: The Road Beyond 10/10/10, http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/07-9)
Despite decades of ... in Climate Hell.
And, Runaway warming collapses civilization – controlling the rate of warming prevents irreversible tipping points in the form of sea level rise that exacerbates food insecurity and collapses world powers
Brown, Masters in AE from Maryland and Masters in Econ from Harvard, Director and Founder of the global institute of Environment in the U.S 2008 Lester E. Brown, “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization” SM
In 2004, Stephen ... these extreme stresses.
Contention 3: Viva La Comida
Cuba’s fossil fuel, fertilizer and chemical free agriculture produces better crops than industrial farming
Raj Patel, ward-winning writer, activist and academic He has degrees from the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics and Cornell. October 7, 2013
(What Cuba Can Teach Us About Food and Climate Change, Slate, http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/future_tense/2012/04/agro_ecology_lessons_from_cuba_on_agriculture_food_and_climate_change_.html, Accessed: 10/7/13, CD)
The Studebakers plying ... of just one.
Cuba’s model will be adopted worldwide – opens up new land and encourages small business models
Shkolnick, J.D. Candidate, Drake University Law School, 2012
(Jacob, SIN EMBARGO: n1 THE CUBAN AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE UNITED STATES, Drake Journal of Agricultural Law, LexisNexis scholar ,Accessed:10/23/13, CD)
The organoponic system ... agriculture to flourish.
Lifting agriculture restriction key to provide economic stability in cuba
Ashby , Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, March 29, 2013
(Dr. Timothy, PRESERVING STABILITY IN CUBA AFTER NORMALIZING RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES – THE IMPORTANCE OF TRADING WITH STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES, COHA, http://www.coha.org/preserving-stability-in-cuba-timothy-ashby/, Accessed: 1/19/14, CD)
U.S. policy specifically ...well as SOEs.
Access to a US export market key to save and spread Cuban sustainable system
Kost, agricultural economist in the. Specialty Crop Branch, Market and Trade Economics. Division, Economic Research Service, 2004
(William E, CUBAN AGRICULTURE: TO BE OR NOT TO BE ORGANIC?, ASCE, http://www.ascecuba.org/publications/proceedings/volume14/pdfs/kost.pdf, Accesssed: 1/20/14, CD)
EXTERNAL MARKETS ... in other sector.
Cuba’s agroecological practices create a sustainable agriculture model that promotes environmental concerns and food independence
Christina Ergas, graduate student in sociology at the University of Oregon , March 2013,( (Cuban Urban Agriculture as a Strategy for Food Sovereignty, Monthly Review, http://monthlyreview.org/2013/03/01/cuban-urban-agriculture-as-a-strategy-for-food-sovereignty, Accessed 10/6/13, CD)
In conjunction with ... within this nation