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Venezuelan Andean communities organize for food independence through Native Potato Seeds

on January 6, 2019

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The seventh EcoFestival of the Native Potato Seed has recently come to an end. This annual event synthesizes the struggle for the rescue of the ancestral potato and other Andean produce, in favor of food sovereigntyÂ in Venezuela. The EcoFestival of the Native Potato Seed, is an annual event, held for the last seven years in the Venezuelan Andean community of[Read More...]

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