In Brazil, organic vegetable gardens are growing in the heart of drug trafficking

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In Brazil, organic vegetable gardens are growing in the heart of drug trafficking

In Rio de Janeiro, in the middle of favelas and drug traffickers, vegetable gardens improve the lives of residents and encourage organic farming. A near anomaly in the country that consumes the most pesticides. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), report You have to see it to believe it. North of Rio, wedged between a drug dealing point and a highway slip road, stretch out large green plots, overlooked by high-voltage lines: welcome to the largest communi…