Database research record2021·Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)
Building communal ties in the Arranjo Local da Penha
Mariana Portilho, Camila Gonçalves de Oliveira Rodrigues , Annelise Caetano Fraga Fernandez
Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT)
Urban Farm DB summary
This study presents the formation of Arranjo Local da Penha, a community territorial network established in 2016 in the Penha favela complex in Rio de Janeiro. Primarily led by women and focused on promoting urban agriculture based on agroecology, this network fostered women's protagonism and built emotional ties between them and the place, mainly by enabling access to "real food" in the favela.