Organopónico Bolívar I, San Agustín, Caracas
Caracas, Venezuela · Operator: ボリバル民兵（設立時はベネズエラ軍がFAOの技術協力を得て運営。のちミシオン・ブエルバン・カラス由来の協同組合が引き継いだ）
Overview
Opened in 2003 in the San Agustín parish of central Caracas, this was the first urban organic garden in the city. It grows food organically (the organopónico method) on roughly 0.7 hectares and was run at the outset by the Venezuelan army with technical support from FAO. With a popular school of urban agriculture and a permanent farm shop on site, it is the origin point of the city's network of urban agricultural production units.
Citizen participation
The on-site Popular School of Urban Agriculture runs training for residents, while the growing itself is done by an organised producer group. As the starting point of Caracas's network of urban agricultural production units (UPAUs), the site has doubled as a model and a training venue for gardens in other districts.
Operating model
A publicly run production unit on public land. Produce is sold daily at the shop on site. Responsibility for running it has passed from the army to a cooperative and then to the militia.
Impact
The site became the starting point for the spread of urban agriculture in Caracas and has served as the training ground for the units that followed. Responsibility has shifted between army, cooperative and militia; neither staff numbers nor annual yields are published.
Land tenure
A publicly run unit on public land; the document setting out the land title could not be verified.
Crops
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Scale
7,000 m² — 約0.7ヘクタール。カラカス市内に最初にできた都市有機菜園で、敷地内に「都市農業民衆学校（Escuela Popular de Agricultura Urbana）」と、毎日開く直売所を併設する
Sources（2）
This entry is compiled from the public sources, official sites and research below.
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