My web-case is centered around Belo Horizonte, the sixth largest city in Brazil, and their bid to tackle chronic hunger. It is a powerful commercial center, making it a serious industrial producer and contender. According to the Journal of Urban History, Belo Horizonte was one of the first centrally planned urban centers in Brazil. Belo…
WHY BELO?
For my web-case, I decided to focus on the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. As I was doing research, I wanted to center my scope on large urban environments, especially ones that reflected a broad diversity in ethnic and and cultural traditions. My area of interest is sustainable food systems, especially ones that manage…
FOOD AS A HUMAN RIGHT
The Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte has been leading the vanguard of the movement for food justice and sustainability. It has pioneered the blueprint to successfully tackle food insecurity, establishing the guarantee for every single man, woman, and child to have a natural right to food. The Right to Food is one of the 30…