Some Venezuelans who had given up produce as an unaffordable luxury are now turning to urban farming to get vegetables back into their diets. With the help of a government-sponsored urban farming campaign, the head of the newly created Ministry of Urban Agriculture, Lorena Freitez, hopes home gardens will make up 20 percent of the food supply by 2019. "We don't have flour, we don't have pasta, we don't have rice," he said. Kelly Vega says she lost 30 pounds in three months as she focused on feeding her 6-year-old daughter rather than herself. A team of researchers from three leading local universities found that 12 percent of the people in Caracas skip meals.

Source: Fox News July 04, 2016 14:37 UTC