The project proceeds from an intimate understanding of the broader literature on Cuba’s small-scale organic farming sector, including from disciplines such as food and resource economics, agro-ecology, environmental science and agronomy. Within this broad and diverse literature, Lauritsen convincingly carves out a distinct methodological and analytical space for anthropology. Anthropology, Lauritsen argues, can offer valuable insights into everyday agricultural practices and their local meanings, as well as how state, people, economy, and community come together in and through small-scale farming. In addition to thus potentially offering a valuable contribution to the anthropology of agrarian change in the global south, the thesis project also displays a keen awareness of Cuba’s peculiar in-between position as an ethnographic region, and of the country’s longer agrarian history.