GOVERNMENT-PROMOTED URBAN AGRICULTURE IN A VENEZUELAN SCHOOLYARD

An extended strip of land (which I would estimate to be over 100 yards long) in the Liceo Cajigal in Barcelona, Venezuela is used to grow green peppers, yucca, corn and many other crops as part of the government campaign to promote urban agriculture in the context of the current food shortages in the nation. The student in the photo informed me that her school received instructions from the state seed company AgroPatria as well as the municipal government. She said that the next plant to be cultivated will be sunflowers. She also told me that Liceo Cajigal will be selling the food to raise money as a source of school income.