This article explores the efforts of the Venezuelan government to improve food security and rural livelihoods with an experimental cattle-breeding project. It investigates the activities of a state enterprise in the western plains and how the selective-breeding practices of veterinary experts intersect with the logic of capital and biopolitics. Contributing to debates on the interaction between society and environment, the analysis suggests that ‘endogenous development’, or the reduction of poverty through internal markets, draws on systems of knowledge that treat the biology of animals as a field of intervention for the resolution of social contradictions. To reduce reliance on petroleum rent and food imports, Venezuelan experts have sought to create a new breed of cattle suited to the nation's diverse ecologies. But the knowledge systems which guide this project are embedded with a host of cultural and economic assumptions that subvert the successful application of this biotechnology. Ultimately, this article seeks to increase knowledge of the techno-politics of resource states at the start of the twenty-first century and the ways in which cultures of expertise impact food sovereignty.

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培育主权：委内瑞拉种族、自然和资本的生产

本文探讨了委内瑞拉政府通过实验性养牛项目改善粮食安全和农村生计的努力。它调查了一家国有企业在西部平原的活动，以及兽医专家的选育实践如何与资本和生命政治的逻辑相交。该分析有助于讨论社会与环境之间的相互作用，表明“内生发展”，或通过内部市场减少贫困，利用了将动物生物学视为解决社会问题的干预领域的知识体系。矛盾。为了减少对石油租金和食品进口的依赖，委内瑞拉专家试图培育出适合该国多样化生态环境的新型牛。但指导该项目的知识体系嵌入了许多文化和经济假设，这些假设颠覆了该生物技术的成功应用。最终，本文旨在增加对 21 世纪初资源国家技术政治以及专业文化影响粮食主权的方式的了解。