Producción de alimentos y cambio climático: una arista en el pensamiento de Fidel Castro Ruz/Food production and climate change: a line of Fidel Castro Ruz thinking

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The legacy of Fidel Castro Ruz is unquantifiable, the footprint he leaves for humanity is profound, it is a source of knowledge, a forerunner of ideas, with his right look towards the future, encompassing many aspects, including his vision, referred to the need for food production and the causes and consequences of climate change. In this sense, his thinking constitutes an important reference for teachers, students, workers and the community in general. The objective of the paper is to demonstrate that the current validity of one of the edges in the thought of Fidel Castro Ruz, referred to the need for food production and climate change, for which an analysis of a selection of speeches and reflections between 1991 and 2016 is made. Methods such as historical-logical, analytical-synthetic, inductive-deductive which facilitated the synthesis of the most important references of the subject are used. It is noted that, his thinking offers potential for the treatment of the need for food production, the causes and consequences of climate change, its effect on the degradation of ecology and the destruction of the environment, therefore the need for its protection, to preserve human life.

Keywords: Fidel Castro Ruz; food production; environmental protection, climate change