{"id":27815,"date":"2009-03-06T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:38:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:38:29","slug":"2815-venezuela-targets-food-and-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/2815-venezuela-targets-food-and-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela targets food and farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<meta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"><br \/>\n<meta content=\"Word.Document\" name=\"ProgId\"><br \/>\n<meta content=\"Microsoft Word 11\" name=\"Generator\"><br \/>\n<meta content=\"Microsoft Word 11\" name=\"Originator\">\n<link href=\"file:\/\/\/C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CSAM%7E1.GEA%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml\" rel=\"File-List\" \/><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n \n  Normal\n  0\n  \n  \n  false\n  false\n  false\n  \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n  \n  MicrosoftInternetExplorer4\n \n<\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]>\n\n\n<style>\nst1\\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }\n<\/style>\n\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n<!--\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\n p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-fareast-\"Times New Roman\";}\na:link, span.MsoHyperlink\n\t{color:blue;\n\ttext-decoration:underline;\n\ttext-underline:single;}\na:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed\n\t{color:purple;\n\ttext-decoration:underline;\n\ttext-underline:single;}\np\n\t{\n\tmargin-right:0in;\n\tmargin-left:0in;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-fareast-\"Times New Roman\";}\n@page Section1\n\t{size:8.5in 11.0in;\n\tmargin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;}\ndiv.Section1\n\t{page:Section1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n\n\n<style>\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\n table.MsoNormalTable\n\t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-fareast-\"Times New Roman\";}\n<\/style>\n\n\n<![endif]-->             <\/meta><br \/>\n<\/meta><br \/>\n<\/meta><br \/>\n<\/meta>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since winning a referendum vote in February that allows him to seek re-election again in 2012, Ch&aacute;vez has moved against food companies, imposing output quotas and sending troops to grain mills. This week, he nationalised a unit of the US food giant Cargill and threatened to take over his country&rsquo;s top food producer, Empresas Polar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tough new quotas force food companies to direct most of their output to products with price caps. Cargill&rsquo;s rice plant was taken over for producing only parboiled rice, which is exempt from the price controls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other plans include issuing US$1.9 billion in local currency bonds to finance soft loans to peasant farmers, and doubling the amount of land under cultivation in the fertile, oil-rich country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The land is not private, it&rsquo;s social property,&rdquo; Ch&aacute;vez said. &ldquo;If you put up a fence, or farm it, or have some barns, well, these things are private. But the land belongs to nobody in particular &ndash; it&rsquo;s everybody&rsquo;s.&rdquo; Agriculture minister El&iacute;as Jaua warned large companies that they would lose their land if harvests fell. &ldquo;If we start to see a decline in plantings,&rdquo; Jaua said, &ldquo;we will occupy the land and the Venezuelan state will plant it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><span>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSTRE5246OO20090305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Hugo Ch&aacute;vez of Venezuela has put food and farms at the centre of his socialist revolution, tightening the government&rsquo;s grip on staple foods in a strategy that risks disrupting the food chain and sparking social unrest, Reuters reported. 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