My webcase 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. One of the first centrally planned urban centers in Brazil, Belo is a city of culture and history. Even though their…
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. In 1993, an activist group known as the ‘Movement…