Venezuela’s Radical Food Experiment Paula Crossfield September 14, 2011 | This article appeared in the October 3, 2011 edition of The Nation. Paula Crossfield is the managing editor of civileats.com. On a hillside overlooking Caracas, Venezuela, Pedro Echavez feeds sweet potato greens to his rabbits. These animals are raised for their meat, but their droppings also fertilize Echavez’s black bean and vegetable plots. This four-acre farm produces enough food to provide 80 percent of the diet for the sixteen people living in his community. Echavez is one of the 680,000 farmers in Venezuela—30,000 of whom are urban or peri-urban farmers—who have registered to receive low-interest credit, tools and technical assistance, since January, through a government program called Mission AgroVenezuela. This new program is at the center of a radical way of thinking about agriculture as a tool for development, including the use of appropriate, affordable technology and the implementation of nonchemical farming. http://revolucionalimentaria.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/venezuelas-radical-food-experiment/
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