This is what I was looking for....Reclaiming Agrarian Roots, something we should all pracise. This is a great report that can open the eyes of policy makers and populations in developed countries as well as those developing... Ironically, the very oil wealth that today is being used to rebuild Venezuela’s food and agriculture system is largely to blame for its prior dismantling. Venezuela is a country with agrarian roots, as indicated by its music, art, and culinary traditions. However, the discovery of vast petroleum reserves and the subsequent development of a major oil exporting industry led to the neglect of the country’s agriculture sector over the course of the twentieth century, as an influx of foreign currency made it relatively cheap to import food and other goods. An abandoned agricultural sector meant abandoned rural communities, leading to a mass exodus of people from the countryside into urban areas, particularly in and around the capital of Caracas. By 1960, the percentage of the population living in rural areas had dropped by nearly half to just 35 percent, and then to a mere 12 percent by the 1990s, making Venezuela home to one of the most urbanized populations in Latin America. Additionally, with domestic food production greatly reduced, Venezuela became the only Latin American country to be a net importer of agricultural products. Read on and learn....
Posted on: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 19:02:07 +0000
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