PERMANÊNCIAS E TRANSFORMAÇÕES DAS PRÁTICAS RURAIS NOS ‘ESPAÇOS URBANOS’ DE JOÃO PESSOA E DE NATAL/BRASIL / PERMANENCIES AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES IN THE 'URBAN AREAS' OF JOÃO PESSOA AND NATAL/ BRAZIL

Urban Farm DB summary

Drawing on field observation, photographic records, questionnaires and informal conversations, alongside prior research and government data, this study analyzes the persistence of rural practices — small-scale cattle dairying (vacarias) in João Pessoa and agricultural practices in Natal, both coastal cities in Brazil's Northeast — within areas classified as urban, describing these as "islands of rurality" that resist real-estate speculation and urbanization pressures, and calling for methodologies better able to distinguish urban from rural attributes in such hybrid spaces.