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Q&A: Brazil’s School Meals Teach Good Eating Habits

By Fabiola Ortiz
Providing school meals for 45 million children is a remarkable achievement for Brazil. But the programme faces specific difficulties, as well as the generic problems plaguing any national plan in this vast country of more than 192 million people.
Family farms produce most of the food consumed in Brazil. Credit: Fabíola Ortiz/IPS

Small Rural Businesses in Brazil Set Sights on Domestic Market

By Fabiana Frayssinet
"Canjinjin has special powers," said Deize Coelho de Barros. The recipe for this local liquor, made from a mixture of herbs, was handed down from her African ancestors, and is seen as a sort of traditional "Viagra" in her homeland, the western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.