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The potential roles of vertical urban agriculture to promote the right to food in Brazil

Felipe Jardim, Eduardo Alberto Manjarrés Trelles, Caren Freitas de Lima

Revista de Direito da Cidade

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This study investigated the role of vertical urban agriculture in promoting the right to food in Brazil, considering the food system crisis as a problem affecting the right to the city. An inductive method with a qualitative approach, including literature review, documental research, and case studies from Japan, Singapore, Germany, the USA, and Brazil, revealed that vertical urban agriculture has "cons" when appropriated as a profitable system with restricted access products, and "pros" such as occupying vacant urban land and being produced by or supporting poor families.