FAO Representative Debunks Myth of Increased Hunger in Venezuela, Highlights Urban Farming Initiatives

February 24, 2015, 10:49 pm

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Marcelo Resende & Vanessa Davies – Correo del Orinoco

FAO Representative Marcelo Resende says Venezuela's urban agriculture is playing a key role in improving food sovereignty.

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Guillermo Barreto: “If we don’t guarantee water for the future, then we aren’t socialists”

April 29, 2015, 4:46 pm

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Ciudad CCS/ Guillermo Barreto

In this interview with Caracas based newspaper Ciudad CCS, Venezuela’s new Minister of Eco-Socialism, Guillermo Barreto, gives readers an insight into the government’s vision for its environment policy.

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“Venezuela Must Raise the Flags of Campesinos Across the Globe against the Privatisation of Food”

November 20, 2015, 7:39 am

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Manuel Suarez & Rachael Boothroyd Rojas- venezuelanalysis.com

VA's Rachael Boothroyd Rojas talks with activist Manuel Suarez of the Venezuelan collective Homo et Natura about the monumental Anti-Transgenic and Anti-Patent Seed Law currently in debate in the country’s National Assembly.

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Venezuela Passes Law Banning GMOs, by Popular Demand

January 4, 2016, 9:37 am

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William Camacaro - Frederick B. Mills - Christina M. Schiavoni

The National Assembly of Venezuela, in its final session before a neoliberal dominated opposition takes the helm of legislative power on January 5, passed one of the most progressive seed laws in the world on December 23, 2015; it was promptly signed into law by President Nicolas Maduro. On December 29, during his television show, “In Contact with Maduro, number 52,” Maduro said that the new seed law provides the conditions to produce food “under an agro-ecological model that respects the pacha mama

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Questions for the President on Open-Pit Mining

March 18, 2016, 3:05 pm

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Lenin Cardozo – Aporrea

In an open letter to President Maduro, the author raises concerns regarding a recent open-pit mining concession by the Venezuelan government to Canadian mining conglomerate Gold Standard, which is likely to have severe ecological repercussions in the South American nation.

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Venezuela’s Outages and the Western Press’s Confirmation Bias Problem

April 18, 2016, 1:41 pm

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Peter Bolton – COHA

Western media deploy double standards in their coverage of water and electricity shortages in Venezuela, blaming the country's leftist government for problems common across the global South.

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New Commodity Frontiers in Venezuela: Extractivism’s new leap forward into the “web of life”

April 20, 2016, 11:10 am

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Emiliano Teran Mantovani

The national government is now driving a significant geo-economic reorganization of territories around extractivism, with “Orinoco’s Mining Arch“ and “Orinoco’s Petroleum Belt“ as central projects. The appropriation of the last “virgin” areas of the country paves the way for new “accumulation by dispossession” processes, attempting to address the crisis of governability and accumulation model.

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Venezuelan Comics Find Their Space on the Web

December 8, 2010, 5:46 am

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Laura Vidal - Global Voices Online

The comic in Venezuela is one of the genres that is generally underrated and ironically, treasured within the country's culture. The artists who associate themselves with the expression of the comic and its way of illustrating ideas quickly and amusingly work more on the net than among publishers.

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Venezuela on the UN Climate Talks

December 10, 2010, 7:16 am

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Claudia Salerno, Democracy now

After one week, the fate of negotiations at the U.N. Climate Change Conference remains uncertain. We speak to Venezuela’s lead climate change negotiator, Claudia Salerno.

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Venezuela: Food Sovereignty Project Launched

December 15, 2010, 7:49 am

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Lisa MacDonald - Green Left Weekly

In October, Chavez called for the acceleration of the nationalisation of agricultural assets, to put more land and property owned by huge food corporations under public control. The land reforms undertaken as part of Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution have reduced hunger and poverty by allowing field hands to own the land they work.

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Social Emergency, Climate Change, Capitalism, and Class Struggle in Bolivarian Venezuela

January 5, 2011, 12:17 pm

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Bolivar and Zamora Revolutionary Current - CRBZ

Our stomach turns when we do a visual count of the damages caused by the merciless rains of recent days. It’s just that figures alone don’t allow for a full comprehension of the catastrophe’s characteristics – in figures there is a cold rational that isn’t understood until one sees concrete faces, the faces of little kids scared and searching for answers amongst such despair.

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Walking the Walk: The Contrast between Chavez and Obama

January 27, 2011, 5:09 am

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Mike Whitney - Centre for Research on Globalization

His enemies call him a tyrant and a dictator, but he is neither. Hugo Chavez is a tireless champion of the poor and a committed Christian socialist. The only difference between Chavez's type of Christianity and Barack Obama's, is that Chavez walks the walk.

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Venezuela: Building a Sustainable Electricity System

December 6, 2011, 6:44 am

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Correo del Orinoco International

Venezuela is using public investment, foreign direct investment, public education, and the law in order to craft a sustainable solution to the rapidly growing demand for electricity that has resulted from economic growth and poverty reduction.

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Venezuela's Opec Stand is a Win for Climate Change Campaigners

March 5, 2012, 5:42 pm

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Mark Weisbrot

Environmentalists seem to realize that they have some stake in a fight such as the Ecuador-Chevron lawsuit...But what about fights between multinational oil giants and the governments of oil-producing states over control of resources?

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Beautiful Venezuela: Tourism with a Social Conscience

May 18, 2012, 11:45 am

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Tamara Pearson – Venezuelanalysis.com

Rather than Disneyland tourism, rather than humiliating “third word” selling itself to the rest tourism, in stunning Venezuela, tourism is taking a new turn towards community and state run exploration of history, culture, and biodiversity.

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Food Sovereignty in Venezuela

August 2, 2012, 6:51 am

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Heidi Chow - World Development Movement

Over the last 12 years, the socialist government of Hugo Chavez has been attempting to rebuild Venezuela’s agricultural sector and has included the radical concept of food sovereignty into the country's new constitution. Food sovereignty is a concept that originates in the global south and presents a positive alternative to our broken global food system which is dominated by the multinational food companies who grow food in a way that is unsustainable, leads to hunger and damages the environment.

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A Story about Rubbish: Communities Takeover from Opposition Mayor

September 19, 2012, 4:34 pm

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Tamara Pearson – Venezuelanalysis.com

Smack in the middle of tourist season, in little, tranquil, and stunningly beautiful Merida, with the giant green Andes hugging it on all sides, artisans in the plaza, beard trees in the parks, and tourists from Caracas standing in the doorways of pastel coloured posadas with their cameras –the opposition mayor decided to just stop collecting rubbish.

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Nanotechnology Could Lighten Venezuela’s Oil Footprint

November 23, 2012, 7:01 am

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Humberto Márquez – IPS

Venezuela is studying the use of nanotechnology as a means of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases caused by the oil industry.

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Venezuela Makes Progress towards Fairer Food System

November 26, 2012, 7:29 am

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Miriam Ross – Positive News

A combination of government support and community food growing initiatives is changing the face of the Venezuela’s food sustainability. Miriam Ross shares a taste of the results.

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Venezuela's Doha Climate Delegate Talks: "Rich Countries Profit from Pollution" [Video]

December 11, 2012, 6:42 am

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Democracy now

Claudia Salerno, top negotiator for Venezuela at the UN Climate Change Conference in Doha, said, "This is not an environmental process. This is a process that is going to have impact in economics, so that is why it is so difficult for developed countries to make the necessary changes in their economics."

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