The City that Ended Hunger :: Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger.

In writing Diet for a Small Planet, I learned one simple truth: Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy. But that realization was only the beginning, for then I had to ask: What does a democracy look like that enables citizens to have a real voice in securing life’s essentials? Does it exist anywhere? Is it possible or a pipe dream? With hunger on the rise here in the United States—one in 10 of us is now turning to food stamps—these questions take on new urgency.

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http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=3330

http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=3330