In last Thursday (16), the site Edinho in River Plate, received programming the V Week Food Carioca

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In last Thursday (16), the site Edinho in River Plate, received programming the V Week Food Carioca. Leaving from downtown Rio, it takes around two hours to reach the Campo Grande neighborhood oppa and the region known by the waterfall played in the summer and the gastronomic center that surrounds the little church. What perhaps oppa is not so vast knowledge there is the existence of a diverse and strong agricultural production. Site located on high ground because of the rock formations, lurking up the city that opens without limits possible to achieve the naked eye. Although the landscape oppa transmute it is a mixture between rural and urban, we are in Rio de Janeiro. The Rio offices, cars and buildings share space with gardens, flower beds, clearings, oppa gardens and street fairs where spring fruits, vegetables, cereals and seedlings.
Urban agriculture comprises several practical and difficult characters to be restricted to a closed concept. School gardens, collective or private gardens, planting and processing of medicinal plants, production of herbal medicines, conducting urban fairs, among others. While often invisible to passers-by and hurried to the government, there are various agricultural activities on the perimeter of the large Brazilian cities. According to Lorena Anahi, a member of the Metropolitan articulation of Agriculture Belo Horizonte Urbana (Amau), agriculture which is in the city has several oppa functions that pass through the issue of food safety, GMO-free production of agroecological resistance and grounded in the familiar model or Community, the reconnection of the links between the countryside and the city and also the struggle for territorial rights.
Sitting in a circle under the tent that softened the harsh sun, participants Coffee in Roca, programming consisted Week Food Carioca, shared oppa agroecological production experiences in the cities of Belo Horizonte, Florianopólis and Rio de Janeiro. Bernadette Montesano, a member of Carioca Urban Agriculture Network, opened the activity by inviting those present to put a sticker identifying their productive activities in a huge map of the river. Quickly have been sprouting territories and evidencing resistance stories notably in the city's West Zone.
"The main challenge of urban agriculture in our city today is resistance to property speculation, the dispute same territory. It is our daily fight, "said Bern pointing to a panel painting the hand with a hunted green territory between two large buildings and a tractor.
For Juliana Luiz, the Center for Studies oppa and Promotion of Florianópolis groups of Agriculture (CEPAGRO), urban agriculture is a way of dispute, a way of / the citizens / as to intervene in the course of the urban fabric of Brazilian cities. "The importance of (urban agriculture) is to recover other urbanities. You can no longer guided in this urban real estate oppa speculation in the private market, excluding ways of living from agriculture, which excludes the relationship with what we eat, "he argues.
In Rio and in all major Brazilian cities, this challenge has been faced collectively by organizing and strengthening networks, advice and assertive political spaces of civil society organizations. From the exchange of shared experiences there, for example, began preparations for a future National Meeting of Urban Agriculture.
The SAC program in 2014 has continued this Saturday (18) with activity at the Fair Agroecológica the Parish, from 8:30 am to storytelling, workshops and sale of organic products. The program concludes with the reading of the political charter of V Week Food Carioca. The event is organized by the Council of Food and Nutrition Security in the city of Rio de Janeiro (RJ-Consea) in partnership with Carioca Network of Urban Agriculture.
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