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🗒️🗣️ INTERVIEW | Liccia Romero: ‘We Need a Policy to Fund Agroecology’ Biologist and organizer Liccia Romero discusses the achievements and challenges of agroecology in Venezuela, drawing from the experience of the Mano a Mano Agroecological Market in Mérida. In the interview, Romero discusses how producers adapted to the pandemic, the blockade, fuel shortages, and changing consumption patterns. She also explains the importance of open-pollinated seeds, crop diversification, participatory agroecological certification, and Venezuela’s 2015 Seed Law. “We need a funding policy for agroecological initiatives,” Romero says, arguing that agroecology is often limited to small-scale production because it lacks large-scale support. Read the full interview 👉https://venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/liccia-romero-we-need-a-policy-to-fund-agroecology #Agroecology#FoodSovereignty#PopularEconomy#SeedLaw

📝 INTERVIEW | Esquisa Omaña: ‘Agroecology Is the Alternative to the Climate and Civilization Collapse’ In the latest VA interview, Venezuelan biologist and ecologist Esquisa Omaña, a researcher at the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC) and doctoral candidate in Agrarian Social Studies at the University of Córdoba (Argentina), discusses agroecology as a grassroots alternative to agribusiness. She is also active in the GMO-Free Venezuela Campaign and the Pueblo a Pueblo Plan. 'Agroecology or nothing,' states Omaña, stressing that only community-based farming rooted in Indigenous and Afro-descendant traditions can confront the climate and civilization collapse. She points to rotational conuco agriculture and initiatives like Pueblo a Pueblo, which supplies 100 tons of food monthly to schools, as proof that local models can feed people while challenging corporate control of food systems. 🔗 Read the full interview here: https://shorturl.at/zWvmQ #Agroecology#ClimateChange#PuebloaPueblo