Beginning to End Hunger: Food and the Environment in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Beyond

Beginning to End Hunger: Food and the Environment in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Beyond
ISBN-10
0520293096
ISBN-13
9780520293090
Category
Social Science
Pages
268
Language
English
Published
2018-01-23
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
M. Jahi Chappell

Description

Beginning to End Hunger presents the story of Belo Horizonte, home to 2.5 million people and the site of one of the world’s most successful city-run food security programs. Since its Municipal Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security was founded in 1993, Belo Horizonte has sharply reduced malnutrition, leading it to serve as an inspiration for Brazil’s renowned Zero Hunger programs. The secretariat’s work with local family farmers shows how food security, rural livelihoods, and healthy ecosystems can be supported together. While inevitably imperfect, Belo Horizonte offers a vision of a path away from food system dysfunction, unsustainability, and hunger. In this convincing case study, M. Jahi Chappell establishes the importance of holistic approaches to food security, suggests how to design successful policies to end hunger, and lays out strategies for enacting policy change. With these tools, we can take the next steps toward achieving similar reductions in hunger and food insecurity elsewhere in the developed and developing worlds.

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