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Living Earth in Latin America...Living Earth has been active in Latin America since the early '90s with projects in Venezuela and Brazil. Fundación Tierra Viva (FTV), our Venezuelan partner, has been developed through our work in Venezuela which begun in 1993 with an environmental education project in the Lake Valencia region. Living Earth and Tierra Viva have since worked in partnership on a number of projects.Tierra Viva is now a fully autonomous NGO working in a number of areas in Venezuela. Living Earth and Tierra Viva now have a very successful partnership, working together, sharing ideas, providing support, advice and guidance for each other.Find out more about FTV's work here (in English) NewsAchieving the delicate balance between conservation and development...
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Building the capacity of community-based enterprises...On 19th October 2009, FTV organised a capacity building workshop for representatives of community-based enterprises from 11 different states in Venezuela. The workshop formed part of FTV's project: “Fair Trade: Strategies to strengthen productive community enterprises in accordance with sustainable development". Participants received information, technical assistance and training in legal requirements, health, environmental and marketing issues associated with community businesses and small and medium size enterprises. Find out more about the workshop here... Supporting environmental and cultural education...On 15th July 2009, Fundación Tierra Viva marked the implementation of the first phase of its programme - 'Intercultural Classroom - A Space for Environmental Action'. FTV has been working with Chevron to build the capacity of educators in the Tucupita municipality in the Delta Amacuro. The programme aims to build the capacity of the Asociación Artística Cultural Nuevo Arte (ASOACNA) and other educational institutions to deliver environmental and cultural education. The programme is targeting 150 children directly and a further 20 teaching establishments. Find out more about this project here (en español). Launch of a new Fair Trade Project...Living Earth recently contributed to a successful joint LEF-FTV (Fundación Tierra Viva) proposal to the European Union. The project “Fair Trade: Strategies to strengthen productive community enterprises in accordance with sustainable development" was launched on 15th November 2008.LEF presents paper at SD conference in Caracas...From 11th to 13th June 2008, Living Earth attended a three day symposium entitled: "Experiences of Sustainable Development: paths to learning" and held in Caracas. Edgardo Garcia-Larralde from Living Earth presented a paper at this conference which brought together speakers from the public and private sector. The event was organised by Fundación Tierra Viva and Simon Bolivar University (Caracas) and was sponsored by Shell Venezuela. Presentation on SD and the extractive industries...In June 2008, Edgardo Garcia Larralde from Living Earth was invited to give a talk on Sustainable Development as linked to the oil and gas Industries at the Energy and Environment Centre of IESA (Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración), a private Venezuelan Postgraduate Business School. LEF organises event at Venezuelan embassy...
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