RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 6 — The Manguinhos neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, a slum where addicts once smoked crack and residents dumped trash, has been transformed into a community vegetable garden that now feeds some 800 families struggling with rampant food inflation.
“This particular area was used as a ‘cracolândia’,” said Julio Cesar Barros, an agronomist employed by the city. “If you arrived here on a Wednesday at 10 in the morning, you could find two or three thousand people smoking crack in this area.” Barros said he helped create the “Hortas Cariocas” project in 2006 to plant vegetables in various parts of the city and supply organic products to lower-income residents.
“While I am planting I am thinking that in a few days I will be harvesting this and taking it home to eat it,” said Diane Silva, an urban farm worker.
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