Abstract

RIVERA RODRIGUEZ, Claudio Alberto; LABRADOR MACHIN, Odalys  and  ALFONSO ALEMAN, Juan Luis. Agricultural Cooperatives: one Road to Economic, Productive and Social Development in the Cuban Economic Model. Revista de Ciencias Sociales [online]. 2006, vol.12, n.2, pp.223-236. ISSN 1315-9518.

This paper explains the antecedents of the cooperative process, beginning with the socio-economic development of Cuba in 1959, and the antecedents to the cooperative process which assume specific characteristics which correspond to the conditions at that time. The different forms of cooperation are emphasized as well as the essential role played by cooperatives in the framework of reform, which was undertaken in the 1990s.

Keywords : Cooperative process; social production relations; agrarian reform; economic reform.