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zuky:
This is an amazing story about Brazil’s fourth largest city, Belo Horizonte, which has made access to food a fundamental democratic right of citizenship and has thereby practically eradicated hunger, with a mixed-economy model which is benefitting city dwellers and regional farmers alike. Using participatory budgeting, the city has implemented a number of innovative initiatives to make it happen, establishing 34 low-cost fresh food markets, three large People’s Restaurants which serve local food to 12,000 people per day for less than 50 cents per meal, school lunch programs, and community gardens.
That’s so fucking amazing. I just. Wow.
I get the sense there’s a lot of impressive radical stuff that’s been going on in South America for ages that I know NOTHING ABOUT because of how US education works (i.e. badly - even at good private schools, there are serious massive inadequacies). Stuff to read up on.
