Thousands of urban farms have sprung up across Brazil’s poorest communities, as residents from grandmothers to drug traffickers resort to growing their own food amid soaring prices
In Brazil’s favelas, residents grow vegetables in large-scale community gardens, as inflation and supply-chain problems push more into hunger
A huge urban garden, which provides cheap produce to some 800 families, growing in the Manguinhos slum in Rio de Janeiro.RIO DE JANEIRO—As a teenager in the Manguinhos slum community in northern Rio de Janeiro, Leonardo Ferreira said he used to spend his mornings packaging cocaine between shootouts with the police.
Now, he tends to his lettuce in the favela’s vast vegetable garden, one of thousands of urban farms that have sprung up across Brazil’s poorest communities, as residents from grandmothers to drug traffickers resort to
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