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Food (in)security in urban peripheries: the case of Maré, Rio de Janeiro
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posted on 2019-08-29, 07:59 authored by Antonis Vradis, Timo BarthollThis article discusses urban food insecurity and the right to the city in the case of Brazil overall, and in the Maré complex of favelas in Rio de Janeiro in particular. It presents the key questions that guided our research project, Nutricities, as these stemmed from our four working groups on urban agriculture; agroecological markets and food distribution; the genealogies of pacification; and food sovereignty in the favela. In addition, the article presents the action-research approach deployed by our team for the study of food insecurity. This study was situated in the context of the increasing securitisation of Brazilian urban peripheries, and the ensuing obstacles caused to their populations’ right to the city—by which we mean their claim to fundamental urban rights, which include access to affordable and good-quality food. The article proposes the agroecological approach as a potential avenue to reach popular food sovereignty in the areas where this prospect seems most distant at present: the urban peripheries of the Global South.
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British Academy Cities & Infrastructure Programme
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Journal of the British AcademyVolume
7Issue
s2Pages
245 - 260Publisher
The British AcademyVersion
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2019-08-07Copyright date
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2052–7217Language
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