Database research record2025·Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), China (Beijing)
Sowing Seeds of Trust in Beijing and Rio de Janeiro
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The MIT Press eBooks
Urban Farm DB summary
This account describes the challenges in building support for Rio de Janeiro's Hortas Cariocas urban farming initiative in 2016. Negotiations among environmental protection officers, education officials, and school administrators generated "fiery discussions" regarding garden placement, teacher training, and incentives. The presence of a foreign professor was used to strengthen arguments for urban farming's benefits.