Cuban Farmers: First Step Towards Free Enterprise

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6923717.stm

Cuban farmers may be the first to have private businesses as Raul Castro hints at wider reforms. Already, the majority of farms are privately owned. They must provide a certain amount to the state and whatever is left they can sell at the farmer's markets.
I was drawn towards this article because of its relevance to the article I posted yesterday. In both cases, food is the means by which reform happens. In the case of the Green Revolution coming back to nab people in third world nations with food shortages (yesterday's article), the scarcity of food already led to a major change towards modified crops and now will require another major change if distruction is to be avoided. In Cuba's case, food is the leader in the reform towards a freer state. In both cases, food was the catalyst. Until someone figures out how humans can survive without food, food's necessity will continue to make it the means for revolution.