前言加勒比海群岛的农业迄今仍然建立在由16到19世纪的奴隶种植园制度所创立的结构基础之上。按照这种制度,非洲奴隶出劳力,加勒比海群岛出土地(土地是欧洲人从被征服的当地美洲印第安人手中得来的),而欧洲则提供投机资本并进行经营管理。奴隶种植园经济生产供出口的农产品,特别是糖,然后在欧洲市场销售。这 Foreword Agriculture in the islands of the Caribbean has so far been based on the structure established by the slave-plantation system from the 16th to the 19th centuries. According to this system, African slaves worked hard and the Caribbean islands were unearthed (the land was obtained by Europeans from the conquered Native American Indians) while Europe provided speculative capital and operated it. Slave plantations economically produce agricultural products for export, especially sugar, which are then marketed in the European market. This