This book is the result of several years of research related to agrarian transformations that occurred in Cuba, from the study in three representative municipalities of the changes taken place in the agrarian sector of the country.

These results are considered transcendent, not only because they constitute a serious and comprehensive analysis on Cuban agrarian problem, for their importance in order to understand current agrarian politics and their contribution to the development of regional and local history, but also for their methodological value, when opening a valuable and fundamented road for rural sociology researches in the future.

Contrary to other studies, this book combines historical and sociological analyses and approaches the logic of the general process of agrarian transformations from its experiential angle, showing the specific form in which it came true in regional space and how it was perceived by its actors. The unit among its conception and the diverse and rigorous methods applied for the analysis grant a solid foundation to their arguments, which are exposed in a logical way, with literary language and virtue.

This year, this book was awarded the prize granted by the University of Havana (UH) to the "best published scientific book". Its main author also received the prize to the "Scientific work of 2000" for the research that supports it, granted by the Honorary Chair "Alvaro Reynoso" of the University of Havana (UH). It has references from acknowledged specialists (some of them are foreign) which highly ponder her scientific merits, contribution and impact. It is the first book that analyzes the changes in agrarian economy in capitalism, socialism with state prevalence, and during the crisis and transformation toward a mixed agrarian economy.