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| Venezuelan students are trained by Cubans in agroecology in Caracas |
By Cubaheadlines.com, November 28, 2011
Orlando Lugo,
president of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP), said more than
400 000 Cuban farmers using agroecological and that this practice is being
extended to all the country, in order to achieve sustainable development.
Decree-Law 259,
established several years ago and given land in usufruct to exploit, benefiting
over 150 000 men and women.
This helped to
reinforce the agroecology movement in the country, added the peasant leader.
This made the
conclusions of the Third International Conference on Agroecology and Sustainable
Agriculture, in which 238 delegates took part from 26 nations.
According to the
final resolution in the meeting exchanged views and assessed the implementation
of the experiences of agroecological practices and methodology from farmer to
farmer.
Also deepened the
search for alternatives to favor populations of the world with an agriculture
that ensures food sovereignty and sustainability
Participants
expressed a programmatic set of definitions, including the certainty of the
environmental value, social and economic production of agro-ecology for present
and future generations.
It also reaffirmed
the importance of genuine agrarian reform, which in addition to access and
right to work the land, implement public policies and investment programs,
based on a sustainable rural environment.
The president of
the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) United States and a member of Via
Campesina, Ben Burkett, read a special resolution of support for the Cuban Five
imprisoned in that country.
It expresses the agreement
of peasant organizations, indigenous and rural workers involved, to join the
Cuban people claim they are released immediately.
They also call for
allowing the immediate return of Rene Gonzalez, who finished his cruel
imprisonment must serve three years of supervised release in their own Miami
where he was tried, risking their personal safety.
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