Inter Press ServiceUrban agriculture sprouts in favelas, Fabíola Ortiz reports https://www.ipsnews.net/2015/04/urban-agriculture-sprouts-in-favelas-fabiola-ortiz-reports/ News and Views from the Global South Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:47:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Urban agriculture sprouts in favelas, Fabíola Ortiz reports https://www.ipsnews.net/2015/04/urban-agriculture-sprouts-in-favelas-fabiola-ortiz-reports/ https://www.ipsnews.net/2015/04/urban-agriculture-sprouts-in-favelas-fabiola-ortiz-reports/#respond Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:26:43 +0000 IPS Correspondents http://www.ipsnews.net/?p=144234 By IPS Correspondents
Apr 16 2015 (IPS)

Video report “Urban agriculture sprouts in favelas” plus full contribution by IPS journalist Fabíola Ortiz.

You don’t need to live in the country side to grow vegetables. It is possible to maintain an organic farming based on ‘agricology’, in the favelas or shanty towns in Rio de Janeiro a pioneering initiative is now underway. Ms. Maria Helena joined the first course of organic urban agriculture.

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