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supply book Noviembre, 2021 In 1962, the Supply Book was created by decree in Cuba and, since then, few Cubans imagine the food performance of their household without this document. So, it presented a basic food basket as part of the central and planned economy. Although, initially, it had a direct monetary and product subsidy from the Soviet Union, after the dissolution of the latter, the contents of the passbook were drastically reduced. Over the years, the notebook continued to lose prominence in its essential supplies, for example, in 2009 it again suffered a cut in grains, salt and tubers, and a year later the quota of cigarettes was definitively eliminated, which went to a regulated free sale. Currently there are around 3,809,000 family units registered in the booklet system, grouping more than 11 million Cubans. The products of the notebook are variable according to geographical area and may be subject to administrative, production and transportation errors of their products, as well as the actual availability and import capacity of the country. Despite this, during the last two years the notebook has been not only a management document for the delivery of regulated food, but also for the regulation of donations and other controlled, but not subsidized, products within the emergency policies by the COVID-19. As the economic crisis has worsened, Cuban households have once again become more dependent on this document, showing an increase in its registration, as an instrument of surveillance and social regulation, as well as the normalization of food insecurity. The Food Monitor Program conducted semi-structured interviews to obtain information on the food experiences of Cuban citizens around the supply book, their purchasing power, dependence on subsidies, perception of well-being and food security, bartering and survival dynamics, among others. EVERYTHING IS SO EXPENSIVE THAT THE SUBSIDY IS A RELIEF Leandro Fernandez* "If there are elderly people or children, it is impossible to survive without the notebook since most of the month you have to buy products on the street"... Read more... HERE IS EVERYTHING Diana Sanchez* "I consider that the family diet cannot survive without the notebook, at least, even if it is that little bit, a few days helps"... Read more... I DON'T MAKE LUNCH AND DINNER LIKE I BEFORE Glory Morales* "The products of the notebook are missing because there is nowhere to get rice, sugar, or coffee, oil is scarce". Read more... WE GET EVERYTHING FROM THE BLACK BAG Richard Gonzalez* "The State does not have or deliver any released product, all the acquisition is in the black bag, which thus makes life more expensive"... Read more... I HAVE SOLD THINGS FROM THE HOUSE TO EAT Read more... "For everything you have to show the notebook because, in addition to not being able to buy in any store"... Mireya Lopez* I CAN'T REACH Yaima Reyes* "I've only had access to a combo once from abroad, for a donation through a friend"... Read more...

Poor people who have to access the products through the queues because I see that the fastest queue is 6 hours. There is nothing to decide, you buy what there is Ismael Fajardo, fifty-seven years old, unemployed, lives in Havana with his wife, a health professional. Approximately how much do you spend in a month to guarantee your family's diet? How much of your income does it represent? The spend of the month varies, but I can say, for example, that I received 400 MLC on July 26 and on October 6 I reached zero. In general more or less 200 MLC. How much of your income does it represent? My income is variable, I cannot record it well, because my children support and cover my food needs. It's been almost two years since we left home due to the pandemic. My wife, the person with an employment relationship in the household, earns 4460 CUP. How do you access food and in what percentage? (grocery markets, organic farms and fairs, black market, shipment of combos from abroad, purchase in MLC stores, labor incentives, others) I access food through the black bag and the combos that my children send me from abroad. How many hours do you spend searching for and buying these foods? I don't queue. Poor people who have to access the products through the queues because I see that the fastest queue is 6 hours. Do you use social networks to find out about supplies and prices in your area, for example, via Facebook or Telegram or WhatsApp groups? Yes, I use the networks, because combos don't always bring everything. If you had to divide your diet, how would you describe your intake of animal protein, vegetable protein, carbohydrates? For example, how many times a week do you consume: fish, red meat, white meat, dairy products, eggs, vegetables? Consumption is very difficult. I haven't eaten fish for more than 5 months, the last time because it came in a combo that was sent to me from abroad with a string of 8 little fish. Red meat the same situation: 2½ kg that came in the same combo. Of white meat there is only chicken for Cubans, who have already given it the distinction of national bird, hehehe. Dairy products are only available in the black bag and are very expensive: a 1-kg bag of powdered milk costs between 300 and 350 MN pesos, 1½ kg of yogurt costs around 90 MN and eggs are delivered between 10 and 15 per month per person. The vegetables? it same as the other products: the huge queues, and in private businesses the prices are sky high: 1 avocado today costs 30 MN, 1 bunch of beans that does not reach ½ lb costs 25 MN and so on, chard, quimbobo, chili. A pot of ice cream that I cannot calculate the weight of, you can only imagine the amount [referring to 10L containers], around 30 MN, all of this in private businesses, resellers, etc. Of white meat there is only chicken for Cubans, who have already given it the distinction of national bird What are, in your opinion, aggravating factors that you face daily when it comes to ensuring cooking? I'm thinking about the affectations for basic service of water, gas and electricity. I have no affectations of that type, but there are problems with the spices for the elaboration. Who do you think is today guaranteeing the right to food in Cuba, the State or the family? In my family, my children are the ones who sustain and cover those needs. Do you consider that, when shopping, you must decide between one basic food or another? Do you think you are buying food at a fair price? There is nothing to decide, you buy what there is because there is no other option. The prices are not fair and they go up more every day. Read all interviews on Food Monitor Program HERE

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"The products in the book are missing because there is nowhere to get rice, sugar, or coffee, oil is scarce" I don't do lunch and dinner like before Gloria Morales is in her fifties, works for the State, lives with her 80-year-old mother and her adult son in Santiago de Cuba. Who in your family usually does the shopping at the grocery store? The purchases are made by my son. Do you buy other “controlled”, “regulated” or “regulated” products? for this system? No. The rest that I need to live I acquire through other means outside of the supply book. What products from the supply book do you consume most frequently? Do you leave any without removing in the month? The products of the notebook after the monetary ordering are no longer subsidized, except diets of any kind, but in my case I don't have any. I eat almost all of them except the soy mincemeat, but I take them all out, I give the mincemeat away. How much of your formal income does the monthly purchase of the products in the notebook represent? Do you consider that your ability to acquire them has been affected since the monetary reform? It represents less than 10% of my current salary. My ability to purchase has not been affected because there are very few products and in small quantities. How many days of the month would you say that the basic products of the notebook are enough for the family? It depends. Beans last 3 or 4 times, meat 2 meals, rice about 10 days, sugar, coffee, salt depending on how you save it. I no longer make lunch and dinner as before, because the rice is not enough, but we have anything for lunch, let's say viands, eggs, I don't know, to leave the rice for lunch. I no longer make lunch and dinner as before, because the rice is not enough, but we have anything for lunch, let's say viands, eggs, I don't know, to leave the rice for lunch Do you exchange, buy, resell or give away any of the products assigned to you? No. I only give away the soy mincemeat, I have given things to the most needy people, but not because I have too many, because then I lack them. Mostly I buy from people who sell products from the notebook such as milk, everything else that is needed for example eggs, chicken, oil I buy from resellers. Do you think that the family diet could survive without the notebook? The products in the book are lacking because there is nowhere to get rice, or sugar, or coffee, oil is scarce, so having those products in the book in national currency is very necessary, I don't think anyone can do without that, or even those with the greatest access to the MLC. If they delivered more released products, do you think you could pay for them with your income and that it would be a positive change or would you prefer more subsidies? It would be good to increase the offer, you could acquire some depending on the prices, the state sells just as expensive as the private ones. It would be good if there were more products, acquiring them more or less depends on my salary, mostly not on the existence of the products, because inflation is very high. I do not receive subsidies because I do not have children, or malnourished, or vulnerable people in my family nucleus. It would be good if there were more products, acquiring them more or less depends on my salary, mostly not on the existence of the products, because inflation is very high. Do you consider that the products assigned by the supply book condition the way you prepare food? No. In the elaboration it depends what you have to cook, species, seasonings, and none of that is given by the notebook. Have you received any donation or external product at subsidized prices during the Covid19 period for the passbook? Can you describe it, as well as its origin? The only thing received is the two free modules after July 11, which had 3 kilos of rice, 6 kilos of pasta, 2 kilos of Chinese beans (horrible) and one kilo of white sugar. It was not like that for everyone, it varied according to the products, but the weight of all was more or less the same. Read all interviews on Food Monitor Program HERE

Nota de PRENSA Nota de prensa N° 3- Food Monitor Program Nota de prensa: La FAO y Cuba se reúnen para celebrar sus avances en materia seguridad alimentaria 04 de abril de 2023 Versión en español English Version La Habana, Cuba: El pasado 27 de marzo, el presidente de Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, publicó en su cuenta oficial de Twitter un tuit que destaca la colaboración entre la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y el gobierno cubano. Díaz-Canel resalta la importancia de la cooperación y agradece a la organización por su apoyo en el fortalecimiento de la seguridad alimentaria en la nación caribeña. Desde hace años, la FAO ha estado trabajando en conjunto con el gobierno cubano en diversas iniciativas que buscan mejorar la producción agrícola, la sostenibilidad y la resiliencia al cambio climático en el país. Estos esfuerzos incluyen el apoyo a la agricultura familiar, la promoción de prácticas agrícolas sostenibles y la implementación de tecnologías innovadoras en el sector agroalimentario. Sin embargo, en la realidad, el trabajo de la FAO en la isla se traduce en entregar asistencia técnica y financiera para la elaboración de políticas y estrategias con el objetivo de garantizar la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional de la población. Esta ayuda se convierte en el fortalecimiento de cuadros locales para la implementación de planes de producción agrícola a pequeña escala. En otras palabras, la FAO funge como un organismo internacional que legitima la situación de inseguridad alimentaria en Cuba. La implementación de cooperación en materia de seguridad alimentaria se soporta sobre la base de los informes oficiales que reciben del régimen cubano, es decir, de una imagen deliberadamente distorsionada de la realidad. Sobre estos informes, la FAO construye sus recomendaciones y programas para aliviar la crisis de inseguridad alimentaria que debería estar solucionándose dado que, según la información de la FAO en Cuba esta situación ha mejorado en los últimos años. Aunque la potencialidad de la producción de alimentos en Cuba es alta, las decisiones de producción, abastecimiento y asequibilidad en los mercados dependen, en una economía cerrada, del gobierno. Las ineficiencias en la no importación de materias primas, el retraso en los pagos a productores, la no recepción de cosechas, la falta de combustible para el acopio, el tope no concensuado de los precios, y los problemas en la transportación de la mercancía a los mercados han sido algunas de las ineficiencias mayores por parte de la administración cubana. Aún así, y con el hecho constatable de que la isla importa entre el 70 y el 80% de sus alimentos con aranceles de hasta 120% sobre su costo, la FAO continúa celebrando supuestos avances en materia de alimentación. Lejos de ser ese vergel de abundancia, prometido por Fidel Castro en la década de los sesenta, Cuba sufre una de sus peores crisis alimentarias, hídricas y energéticas en la coyuntura actual. La población depende del abastecimiento de bienes mediante el uso de un mercado ilícito en el que participa de manera indirecta el propio Estado cubano. La implementación de la Ley de Soberanía Alimentaria y Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional (SSAN) dista de ser una solución real de los problemas, en primer lugar, porque su diseño está sustentado en una información de consumo de alimentos que se aleja de la realidad y, en segundo lugar, porque no cuenta con la viabilidad fiscal necesaria para llevarse a cabo, además de la narrativa idealista que acompaña la ley, se describen pocos instrumentos reales para empoderar al consumidos, al tiempo que deja recaer gran parte de la responsabilidad del Estado de proveer, sobre sus propios ciudadanos. Food Monitor Program denuncia el uso de este tipo de eventos como plataformas para legitimar las acciones estatales en escenarios internacionales, a manera de instrumentos de control de la situación de inseguridad alimentaria en el país. Food Monitor hace un llamado a la comunidad internacional a enviar veedores e investigadores independientes que puedan contrastar la información oficial presentada ante la FAO y evaluar la real situación alimentaria en la isla.

Visitamos familias en las 15 provincias de Cuba para conocer sus formas de vida en torno a la alimentación y recogimos fotos para comparar las experiencias con la comida con el fin de evidenciar que el hambre no se ha erradicado y hay profundas desigualdades en el acceso a la alimentación. SIDEWALK The income categories represented correspond to the global income per family. The photos were taken between the months of March-April 2022, so we adjusted to an average exchange rate during this period of time of 1 dollar = 100 CUP. This rate corresponds to the one existing in the black market since it is the most common space to acquire basic products in Cuba. -$4250 CUP/month = $42.50 USD/month $4,250-9,660 CUP/month = $42.50-96.60 USD/month +$9660 CUP/month = $96.60 USD/month FAMILIES Income determines how each family lives, electrical appliances  you own, the furniture you have, and the food you can take home. The relationship with food goes through the relationship with money and access to foreign currency. CATEGORIES The water with which food is prepared, the electrical appliances that are used, the spaces in which it is shared, the objects that are used, the dishes that are prepared and the cleaning implements, allow us to distinguish the relationship that families have with feeding

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El problema de alimentación en Cuba no obedece a un asunto de falta de alimentos, o de insumos agrícolas, o de problemas de producción... The abundance of scarcity For: German Quintero January 04, 2022 00:00 / 05:56 precariousness for the Cuban population. For December 31 of last year, the government distributed rum and cigarettes to the entire population, assuming that rum and cigarettes would alleviate the situation of discontent. The government did not take into account that an important part of the population, not only children and pregnant mothers, does not consume rum or cigarettes, either because they are not part of their consumption habits, or simply because the products are of poor quality. . These state courtesies, obtained in the warehouse through the Booklet, were resold at more than five times the value established by the regime. Last week, independent media denounced the fines imposed on citizens who wanted to resell products that they did not consume in order to complement a fragile basic basket, lacking eggs and milk, but full of cigarettes and poor quality rum. The year 2021 will be remembered as one of the most difficult for Cuban citizens in terms of consumption, after the Special Period. Tourism income and remittances were strongly affected by the tightening of some of the embargo measures, of the health measures to mitigate the pandemic and, above all, by the spectacular failure of the regime's administrative management, which since the implementation of the Ordering Task at the beginning of that year, where in addition to not promoting domestic production, unifying the Cuban peso with the CUC, promoting the MLC and ignoring the situation of the international market, it was unable to meet the import quota and implemented sufficient measures to maintain or increase internal production. Cuba's economic crisis and the scarcity of goods is largely due to this implementation, which also had the misfortune of coinciding with the rise in international prices of consumer goods and a spiral of prices that shot up and moved away out of reach many foods that were obtained in foreign currency. For the sample, a button: the levels of fishing -affirmed government officials- would not return to those of three decades ago . The fishing laws of 1996 and the most recent of 2020 still do not have the necessary tools to be able to bring fish to the tables of Cubans. How is it possible that on an island, which has not only the sea but also important river sources, it is not easy to procure fish? How is it explained that there is an overexploitation of fishing resources on the island, but there is a shortage of this food? According to official sources, the annual per capita consumption of fish was 16 kg; today it barely reaches 3.8 kg. In short, following official data, each person in Cuba eats about 300 grams of fish per month. This year's forecast is no better than 2021: Going into 2022, essential foods continue to be in short supply and the prices of inputs such as beef, pork, rice, milk, butter and beans are rising. The concern among the population is widespread: some people seek solutions through the rituals of "feeding the land" of the Santeros, while others prepare social mobilizations that echo the cries of "we are hungry" and "freedom" of the 11J demonstrations. Added to this is the massive migration of many of the political dissidents who have been forced to leave the country due to the pressures to which the political regime has subjected them. The panorama of economic crisis in Cuba and the consequent food crisis will be one of the greatest challenges to be faced for this year. The 13% drop in the Gross Domestic Product during 2020 and 2021, as well as the reduction in tourism issues, will be important burdens that will make a dent in the food supply. For now, ordinary Cubans will continue to have to trade rum and cigarettes for basic necessities. AND AND he year 2021 has ended with a situation of extreme Read all of German Quintero's columns on the Food Monitor Program HERE

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WHOSE FAULT IS IT? For: claudia gonzalez December 21, 2021 00:00 / 04:21 AND AND n the first week of December, the Cuban minister of economy, Alejandro Gil Fernández, admitted having evidence that several state stores, marketers of food products and other necessities, they sold in dollars without authorization. At the meeting of the Council of Ministers, this practice was condemned, as well as the inflated circulation of currency on the black market, among other exchanges on the illegal market. Unlike the black market, the gray market calls what the Cuban government condemns as "diversion of goods", that is, the purchase and sale of merchandise outside the channels authorized by the supplier, these merchandise being legal. On the island, from small private businesses dedicated to gastronomy to the administration of cooperatives and other state entities are subject to this type of exchange. More than with “enrichment” and “corruption”, these practices seem to be related to “struggle”, subsistence and resistance against insufficient salaries and fiscal obstacles. When it comes to getting a job, a common question is, and what is resolved there? For many state workers, the assets and access of their companies are a way to supplement their insufficient wages. The social perception of this practice implies two things. First, with a gray market as scarce as Cuba's, access to food products often includes food of poor quality, poor quality, even past its expiration date. In the networks you can find these days homemade recipes for reuse of expired powdered milk that users have purchased in some establishments. Others wonder what the real ingredients are in a tomato sauce or a guava bar bought in state-run farmers' markets, and which are more like carrot soup or beet quince. Second, the discontent of the population is used by the official discourse to redirect social demands to the closest piece in the distribution chain, to the weakest link: the “reseller”, the “hoarder”, the “dealer”. As the crisis progresses, the official press exposes caricatures that ridicule or demonize agricultural producers and vendors, as the only culprits of the inflation in the prices of vegetables and meat. It would be necessary to consider what the pertinent chain of interpellation really is, is the shopkeeper who adds a profit margin more responsible than the one who limits the products for sale to a market in the currency in which wages are not paid, and to which few have access through remittances? Is the neighbor who "hoards" with the purchase of 5 bottles of cooking oil more responsible than the one who does not guarantee a September 5, January 17. 2020. proper importation and distribution, which then imposes up to 120% customs duty on the product? Is the corner vendor who raises the price of pork more responsible than the one who does not import supplies for the animal's fattening, and then sells his imported meat on online markets? Informal relations in Cuba, although not positive for its inhabitants, start from filling gaps created and perpetuated by the country's economic administration, which is not exempt from inequities in its governance system, corruption and patronage. An important step would be not to naturalize these inequalities, and not let them be instrumentalized in the weakest. Read all the columns of Claudia González in Food Monitor Program HERE

A paperless event to “celebrate” For: Serge Angel January 11, 2022 00:00 / 04:27 (Mincin) on December 18, it was announced that, as a result of the delays in the importation of the raw material for the preparation of the supply books for the year 2022, the available lines of the month of January and February of the notebooks of the year 2021. And although the announcement is for the population of the western and central provinces, it is eloquent in the face of what the year 2022 will be in terms of supply; something paradoxical if one takes into account that next March 12 marks the 60th anniversary of the enactment of Law 1015 of 1962, which gave rise to the creation of the "Supply Control Book" . It is difficult to speak of a celebration when in reality what is commemorated is not the supply of the population, but its control, that is, the exact moment in which, through a provision of the Council of Ministers, the National Board for the Distribution of of Food and this, making use of its powers, established the first food regulation measures for Cubans, sentencing what would be the following years of rationing. Under the euphemism of "year of planning" (year 1962) -and the fact is that the regime lives on euphemisms that are in no way compatible with reality- the National Board for the distribution of food announced at its first meeting on March 13 of 1962, what would be the rationed products and what would be the procedure for the acquisition of these through the passbook. What began as a measure to "improve the distribution of supplies" ended up becoming a state policy that through food controls the population in the most intimate. The regime got into each of the homes and abruptly came to control what each family could eat and the products with which they could clean themselves. In the blink of an eye, the board's provisions established measures for the entire country, for 26 cities and for Greater Havana (see image 1. Distribution of rationed items). It was not a minor justified decision in the shortage of those who could buy compared to those who were marginalized, it was a deliberate measure to register each person residing on the island through a person who would act as "head of the family" and who would register all the members of the family nucleus so that the paterfamilias "Revolutionary State" could "guarantee supply." In reality, there was no profit, what there was was a tremendous loss, not only had the freedom to buy been lost -of those who could and those who couldn't-, but also lost the freedom of not being controlled by an ideological apparatus such as the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR). Surveillance body that from that moment acquired teeth and increased its ability to watch the neighbors, both those committed to the Revolution, as well as those "confused" or counterrevolutionaries (see image 2. How to obtain the notebook). The lack of paper for the preparation of notebooks is nothing more than a metaphor for the control to which the people are subjected. Without many alternatives, families will have to write down in the months of January and February 2021 what they will consume at the beginning of the year, hoping that The Mincin keeps its word and on January 30 delivers the 2022 notebooks so that everything returns to the "abnormality" in which it has lived since 1962. AND AND n a note published by the Ministry of Domestic Trade Image 1. Distribution of items rationed by the Food Distribution Board Taken from Bohemia, March 16, 1962 Image 2. How to get the notebook Taken from Bohemia, March 16, 1962 Read all of Sergio Angel's columns on the Food Monitor Program HERE

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