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Urban garden in Rio feeds hundreds of families in former ‘crackland’

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The Manguinhos neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro has been transformed into a community vegetable garden. The urban garden covers the area of four soccer fields, making it one of the largest of its kind in Latin America. The project has now expanded to 49 vegetable gardens across Rio, according to agronomist Julio Cesar Barros.

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News18 India

Urban Garden In Rio Feeds Hundreds Of Families In Former ‘crackland’

The Manguinhos neighborhood 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.

2 years ago·India

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Reuters

Urban garden in Rio feeds hundreds of families in former ‘crackland’

By Sebastian and Roncadio RIO DE JANEIRO - The Manguinhos neighborhood 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. The urban garden covers the area of four soccer fields, according to Rio de Janeiro's "Hortas Cariocas"

2 years ago·United Kingdom

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The Star Kuala Lumpur

Urban garden in Rio feeds hundreds of families in former ‘crackland’

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The Manguinhos neighborhood 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. Read full story

2 years ago·Malaysia

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Channel News Asia

Urban garden in Rio feeds hundreds of families in former ‘crackland’

RIO DE JANEIRO: The Manguinhos neighborhood 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. The urban garden covers the area of four football

2 years ago·Singapore

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Urban garden in Rio feeds hundreds of families in former ‘crackland’

December 6, 2021By Sebastian RocandioRIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – The Manguinhos neighborhood 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.The urban garden covers the area of four soccer fields, according to Rio de Janeiro’s “Hortas Cariocas” program coordinators, making it one …

2 years ago·San Diego, United States

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Urban garden in Rio feeds hundreds of families in former ‘crackland’

"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.

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