Plan to Mitigate Venezuela's Coming Famine
Context: WFP reports 5.1M people urgently require food assistance in Venezuela. This proposal outlines a $200M distributed farm portfolio designed to relieve hunger while oil politics churn.
Overview
My name is Phil Cheevers. I'm a Canadian systems thinker and operator (Pink House Technology), and I've been working for the last couple of years on "Smart Farm" resilience concepts — not as politics, not as charity branding, but as practical operating designs that can survive disorder and measurably reduce harm.
This work sits at the intersection of evidence-first development, human outcomes (nutrition, stability, education), and real-world implementation pathways. I don't have illusions that one idea "solves" Venezuela, and I'm not trying to become a visible actor in the story. I'm simply trying to get a mitigation design into the right hands.
The Proposal
What follows is a short white paper + a 2-page pilot specification for a distributed, locally owned farm portfolio intended to relieve hunger while oil politics churn. The framing is deliberately neutral and non-conflict-connected:
- WFP reports 5.1M people urgently require food assistance in Venezuela.
- The proposal is a $200M envelope concept, but it's structured to start with a small, measurable 90-day pilot (10–25 farms).
- The design avoids common failure modes: no cash-first grants, no "shiny" centralized assets, no export-first monocrops, and no political branding.
- It's meant to reduce long-run food-aid tonnage by rebuilding local production and the "support ring" (seedlings, poultry/aquaculture inputs, solar/water techs, aggregation).
Key Design Principles
Distributed Ownership
Locally owned farm portfolio, not centralized assets vulnerable to political seizure or conflict disruption.
Measurable Pilot
90-day pilot with 10-25 farms to establish proof-of-concept before scale-up.
Support Ring Infrastructure
Rebuild the agricultural support ecosystem: seedlings, poultry/aquaculture inputs, solar/water technologies, aggregation logistics.
Non-Political Framing
Deliberately neutral, evidence-first approach focused on measurable harm reduction.
Implementation Pathway
The proposal is designed to start small and scale based on measured outcomes:
- Phase 1 (90 days): Pilot with 10-25 farms, establish baseline metrics for nutrition outcomes and local production capacity
- Phase 2: Scale successful models, expand support ring infrastructure
- Phase 3: Regional replication with documented playbooks and measured impact on food aid tonnage reduction
Contact
For partnership discussions, implementation pathways, or technical questions:
Phil Cheevers
Pink House Technology
905-321-2291 • 242-809-1832
info@pinkhouse.tech