This explained above can be seen with different products, periods and countries. The production of sugar cane in Cuba and how its relationship in the market, it is one of them. The interaction in the market by Cuba, it is created by the forms of how societies were interacting with each other in a certain period. During the denominated “cold war” which according to datesandevents.org, happen between the years of 1947 until 1991; sugar cane was the main product produced by Cuba because of the embargo established by the United States, which not allowed Cuba to trade with the majority countries that were part of the capitalist block, it influenced the ways that Cuba’s traded and production happen, and depending of the market that was able to be …show more content…
But unlike many other large producers, such as the former Soviet Union, India, the United States, and the European Community, most of Cuba's production has traditionally been exported, with only a small fraction used domestically” (Buzanell, 1992). It shows how this cycle of being part of a “global commodity chain” causes that the production of sugar cane its mainly meant to be exported, and the least amount stays in the country for an internal consumption. Which eventually causes Cuba in this specific case to seek more trade that will permit to obtain other products need it for the country. Also, it is relevant to understand that Cuba in this period was facing the embargo as mentioned, which only allowed them to trade with countries part of the communist bloc. These decreased the options of Cuba to trade products in a wider global market, because of this Cuba became more dependable of sugar cane. This dependence of sugar cane created as a side effect the need of industrialization in this …show more content…
This simply establishes the side effects, and adding to the ones before mention, the higher use of fuel that which as it is commonly known provokes extra emissions of carbon dioxide, start to add to the greenhouse effect. Another point that Buzanell (1992) only briefly mentions is that “fertilization have been done mechanically.” This is another side effect of the mono-agricultural production of sugar cane in this case. Instead of allowing a natural cycle to let the soil recover in its own, this process becomes humanized and by the additional minerals or chemicals as it is explained in A safe operating space for humanity, which says “Human processes — primarily the manufacture of fertilizer for food production and the cultivation of leguminous crops — convert around 120 million tonnes of N2 from the atmosphere per year into reactive forms — which is more than the combined effects from all Earth’s terrestrial processes. Much of this new reactive nitrogen ends up in the environment, polluting waterways and the coastal zone, accumulating in land systems and adding a number of gases to the atmosphere” (Rockström et al.