ANTES DO PRATO - Greenpeace Brasil

BRAZIL HAS HAD RECORD-BREAKING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN RECENT YEARS YET, IN 2020, THE COUNTRY WENT BACK ON THE HUNGER MAP: OVER 50% OF THE BRAZILIAN POPULATION DOESN'T HAVE ASSURED ACCESS TO FOOD This has to be a sham. Because the record production is not intended to feed people in Brazil or in the rest of the world. That record production is actually intended to feed animals, to produce unhealthy food, ultra-processed food.

Most of the people that starve are in the countryside. It seems contradictory. But is has everything to do with the agricultural system and with our global agrifood system.

So, hunger doesn't mean a lack of products, a lack of food, but rather what is produced, where and for whom, and for what system. And it only reinforces inequalities. The data on the record exportations also show that, while the Brazilian population are getting poorer, those exporters are getting richer.

When people starve, they don't starve alone, of course, there are individuals and families suffering, but it is society as a whole that is falling to pieces, society as a whole is out of order, in disarray, paying the consequences. WE STARVE EVERYDAY WE ARE ACCEPTING DONATIONS MAY GOD GIVE YOU DOUBLE I'M HOMELESS I ACCEPT YOUR HELP HUNGER KILLS MORE THAN COVID LIVING IS DELICIOUS PRIOR TO THE PLATE Luana! -Rosângela!

-Here! Go over there, please. Virgínia!

When hunger strikes physically, that's when we lose everything. If you're not well fed, you can't think straight, you can't get around, so you're excluded from society. Children can't pay attention to class if they're not well fed.

All they can think is: when will I have the first meal of the day? When someone comes to me and says they don't have food, I know they lack everything: electricity, gas, water, hygiene products. Their homes lack all of it.

It's a very harsh job, but when you see the smile on a child's face because they received something as simple as lettuce, it's a very fulfilling job. {\an8}JARDIM FILHOS DA TERRA NORTH SÃO PAULO CITY São Paulo's Northside is known for being a region full of trees, but that's not what you see. Here, for instance, there are houses with four or five floors, in which about five to eight families live.

So, to have this space with this potential in the middle of a community, of an underserved part of town, {\an8}it's something very precious, {\an8}because it reduces the socio-environmental impacts. Urban agriculture can bring back spaces for socialization, for instance, recover degraded spaces, bring people closer, something that got lost due to the fast pace, the violence, the lack of space and so on. So, if you look at a vegetable garden, it's a place for growing food, {\an8}but it also produces parties, friends, {\an8}solidarity, social support.

. . I mean, it feeds everything.

We donate basic food baskets. But not only that, because it satisfies the hunger, but it's not nutritious, so we also put together agroecological kits. There are lots of movements today in communities, in underserved areas, that are seeing food in a different way, that know they have the right to healthy food, and that they can have access to it.

So this comes from the markets, the supply chain, and from urban agriculture. Why should cities be barren? No!

So, there are people starving, but there are also people suffering from nutritional insecurity. Those are people who eat something here or there, but are malnourished and defenseless against diseases. {\an8}"How is this person starving if everyone in the family is chubby?

" {\an8}AGRONOMIC ENGINEER {\an8}It gives a false idea that hunger is not that serious. That is what "hidden hunger" means, people are consuming, but they are consuming things that don't actually nourish. So, having this project and teaching people how to feed well, how to eat healthy, and how to produce their own food, gives them autonomy.

What's this? It's a collard sprout. the great thing about it is that the leaves keep growing.

You cut them and they grow back, so you can eat it all year round. It can last up to two years if you take good care of it. You have to remove the bag.

If you plant it with the bag on. . .

It won't grow. Guys, this is a raised garden bed What's that? It's a box with things you will harvest each day for your own food.

For instance, I've been harvesting this lettuce for more than two months. And it's still good. As well as the chives, the red-leaf lettuce.

Soon we will have eggplant. We already have cilantro, tomatoes, arugula, too. So, you can make a salad with this at least two times a week by harvesting this raised garden.

Right, now we are delivering the kits to the subscribers. Those are the people who fund our project. And we deliver the kits to their homes.

We need to look at what comes prior to the plate. Where are these things coming from? Where do I want them to come from?

This kind of attitude, which is personal and collective at the same time, is capable of producing a deep transformation. I have to understand that I need to do my part if I want that food to be on my table. That's the idea of the "co-producer".

You're no longer just a consumer, you must take the risks, too. Agriculture involves a lot of risks. Best moment of the week, Ro.

I didn't order much this week, because there was still things left from last week. {\an8}COOK AND EDUCATOR -I usually joke that Wagner is my hero. {\an8}I say that because he really drives food policy.

To be able to choose what to eat is a political issue. Politics is not just about political parties. So yes, it's unfair, it's necropolitics to let black, poor and indigenous people eat ultra-processed food.

-Hi! -How are you? Everything alright?

Look, there's arrowleaf elephant ear over there, but no one harvests it. See? Over here.

They don't eat it. Because they don't know what it is. We can see that there are houses around here, people having trouble getting food.

this plant is in their backyard, but they don't know it's edible. So it's very important to give this information to the people, especially to the communities. We put it in our donated kits and basic food baskets in order to remind people that this plant is edible and quite nutritious.

We've been picking up food baskets there for two years. Since the beginning. -At Prato Verde.

-Yes, that's the name. {\an8}There is arrowleaf elephant ear, which I like, there are collards, {\an8}avocado, there's also a plant, I always forget the name, it's long, green, a little bit bitter, but it's delicious. {\an8}Grocery stores are too expensive now.

{\an8}Rice, oil, everything is so expensive! {\an8}So these donations help a lot. Since the beginning he asks for banana peels.

I dry it on a metal screen, then I put it inside a bag and take it to him. We don't use pesticides of any kind. We haven't used any kind of natural pesticides for over two years.

We grow several kinds of plants. We respect the cycle of each one of them. So, you can see how balanced our gardens are.

Because pests actually have their own predators. If you grow only one kind of thing, you won't have several kinds of predators. For instance, for greenflies there are ladybirds, for caterpillars there are birds.

So, everything is in balance. This is rainwater that we collect. It helps for the watering.

It's excellent for growing plants. And it's all-natural, too. A lot of people in this neighborhood used to grow plants, they had their own gardens.

And when they arrived in the city they lost it. My mother had a chicken coop and suddenly she bought a TV. Someone on the TV said that it was bad, {\an8}it was shameful to be from the countryside.

{\an8}"We'll put some things in cans for you and you'll be happy. We'll cook for you, don't you worry about it! " We no longer know what it was to celebrate sowing or harvesting.

The food has been taken from our table and substituted with flour. Processed meat appears to be ok. We don't even know where it comes from.

If you ask someone today where their food comes from, they say: "From the grocery store. Someone makes it at the supermarket. " We need to unite.

If each person. . .

"Oh, but I just have a little balcony". But you can grow cilantro, basil, parsley. .

. If you grow vegetables on your roof, you reduce thermal effect. If you collect rainwater, there'll be fewer floods.

If you recycle your waste, landfills will be less full. Can you imagine if we had the possibility? Let's say there are 1,000 houses here.

If a hundred of them grew lettuce, a hundred grew cilantro. . .

We could be gathered here today, and each one could bring their own product to trade or sell. We must know the dream is possible, we must dream again. Don't want to get out, huh?

It is huge! Look! Wow, it smells so good!

Where's the other one? Wow! Look at that!

It's turmeric. I'm harvesting it now. Then I'll plant winter stuff, like cauliflower and cabbage.

In August, I'll start working on the summer crops. This is the last of the harvest of pepper. This day has made me very rich.

I'm always feeling torn. Because I'm aware of the value of our ancestral technologies, but unnatural things that also are pretty also captivate me. White flour is a political factor.

Refined and processed foods are also political factors. Because they reach most of the poor population. It is what we can afford.

Even those who are rich suffer with agribusiness, because for food and books, you need someone to guide you, to light your way. Someone to tell you: eat more of that, less of this. Foods are classified into groups.

{\an8}The first group is natural foods or minimally processed. {\an8}Foods that are just like we find them in nature. {\an8}There's some minimal processing, like drying the grains.

The second group is processed food, they undergo a very simple processing. Things we could do at home. Finally, ultra-processed food.

I call them "non-nutritional foods". They are not exactly food, but rather formulas. Ultra-processed are almost entirely created in labs in order to create highly profitable products, very cheap, that last long and replace all the other food groups.

But we're not able to identify their ingredients, we don't know what they're made of. Is it good for us? {\an8}Ultra-processed food can lead to {\an8}diabetes, high blood pressure, due to the amount of sodium they use as preservatives, and a huge amount of sugar in candies, but also more serious diseases, even cancer.

{\an8}So I think that we, health professionals {\an8}we have to look at this differently. But it's a huge fight. SÃO CAMILO HOSPITAL COTIA, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL At first, the managers of São Camilo intended to build a new hospital here, to build more wings in this area, then Dr Aline thought this garden could be something more.

She said she would really value the garden as it should be. And that the garden would provide the basis for the food of our patients and staff. The garden has always been here.

It didn't have a big variety of produce, but the fruits and vegetables were harvested every day, never exposed to pesticides, and the ingredients were brought to our kitchen. They were used for the menu of our patients and staff. That's how it always happened.

When I saw how big the garden was, I thought it was something huge. It's not just a garden for the hospital. It's more than that, It's a garden for all the other hospitals.

But we needed help for that. When Kairós came on board, we learned about agroecology. We learned how to plant different vegetables together, which provided us with a bigger variety.

We learned how to identify NCEPs, non-conventional edible plants. {\an8}The first thing we found here was a guasca patch, {\an8}INSTITUTO KAIRÓS' FIELD COORDINATOR -which they thought was a weed. They always tried to get rid of it, but we said: "this is a very special plant with medicinal properties, it can replace salt, because it draws magnesium from the soil.

" Something that is really difficult at hospitals is to make the patients who can't eat salt accept their meals. When we started using guasca, the patients enjoyed it, and that made us happier than ever, seeing our work come full circle from start to finish, that we're able to completely nourish the patients. We're even using guasca in the staff's meals.

So, we use what we call "guasca salt" in our cafeteria. But it's not salt. It's just guasca, and it has a salty flavor.

So we started identifying the plants with the same potential, which were already here, but also introducing new species of NCEPs in the hospital's landscape. Non-conventional edible plants are more nourishing than traditional plants. They have many more nutrients, so they're much more resistant.

And they also contribute to the traditional plants. So, roselle, celosia, common sow thistle, chicory, all these plants with several uses. They also create pretty landscapes.

So, in our case, agriculture is also an environmental service. We have references of agroforestry systems and successional agriculture, so we plant in high density, everything mixed up in the same garden, collard with lettuce, short cycle and medium cycle plants, corn and sunflower, plants that stay longer in the garden. So we see that, in the long term, this has a very fascinating effect on health.

We can see agroecology, nutrition and health intertwined. We have to include agroecology in nutrition curriculum. Nutritionists must learn it and only that can provide a full, healthy nourishment.

This healthfulness comes from the way we care for the soil. You take care of soil so it can take care of you. To quote Prof.

Primavesi, living soil, healthy soil, healthy plant, healthy human being. So in a soil with this nutritional diversity promoted by microbiota and ground cover, the different plants exchange nutrients, they make their magic happen under the soil, so you have more lively food. In today's activity {\an8}KAIRÓS INSTITUTE NCEP EXPERT -I'll teach you about the last plants from spring and summer, and a little bit about the ones coming in autumn and winter.

Do you remember the name of this one? Roselle. We've developed something cool with it.

. . You're using it to make salad, right?

You can use its leaves to make jelly, too. One thing we haven't used much yet, but we must use it, is the sweet potato leaf. Highly anti-inflammatory and it's really delicious.

It's a very soft leaf, just like Swiss chard, after one minute in the pot it's ready to eat. It has a mild flavor, a very soft texture, and incredible nutritional properties. It's a great source of fiber, protein.

We're not alone, we're not doing anything alone, we have no personal goals. Our goals are collective. Our goals are connected.

{\an8}XIQUE XIQUE NETWORK MOSSORÓ, RIO GRANDE DO NORTE, BRAZIL We always say that agroecology is a science. It's a science, an ecological basis. Because it's not a product.

The product is not agroecological, but the methodology, the science you use to grow it. It's the way you relate to nature and people. {\an8}So I always say agroecology is everything.

{\an8}It's thinking about your life and in your own environment. {\an8}It's thinking about people's social and economic relations. That is what agroecology is for me.

So much land in just a few hands This is just not right We want land, too To plant mini-beans I'm happy in the community In the community I'm happy Just one bee, it stings once, and then dies. This is our apiary, we call it the "round apiary". When we say round apiary, we know it is this one.

A little bit more. There's a lot of propolis, so it sticks and divides the insects. We mix it with alcohol to make the propolis we use for sore throats.

Right here. That's what makes the sealant. This is a nest, where their offspring is.

Their offspring. If we need insects, animals, let alone other people! Solidarity economy, agroecology and feminism are very important to the Xique Xique Network.

We have a store, which is a link between all producers, and it makes part of the chain. We're in 15 cities here in the state, which has several agroecological fairs. Solidarity economy is not thinking about profit, but rather about people's lives.

In order to join Xique Xique Network, people ask if they must already practice agroecology and solidarity economics. No, but you must aspire to in the future. Because we're not born agroecologists or solidarity economists, we learn how to be them.

{\an8}We believe that only with equality we can transform life, both women's and men's lives. At first I was scared of her. {\an8}Scared to death!

When I saw her, I was like this. {\an8}I put my hands like this, because they were shaking, I was scared. Because she said I had to behave like a coordinator.

What did I do? When I was there I used to sweep the floor, clean the bathrooms, I enjoyed doing this. "But I need you to coordinate things, not to clean the place!

" When she was not there, I used to say I wanted to be like her. Tough like her! So we learned that together, I learned it the hard way, too, I was just like her.

It's very good when someone reaches out to you. You feel more protected, stronger. And you can make progress.

I know there are a lot of women that are really suffering in silence, because they don't have anyone to reach out to them, that is there for them. You can plant organics in a monoculture. Just because there's no pesticide.

But you're not thinking about relations. So we stand up for organic products here, but primarily thinking about our diversity and food security. About our lives.

We try to maintain nature's balance. People's balance as well! Feeling good as a collective, everyone helping each other.

Sometimes I have some fruit, she doesn't, so we trade, so we can all partake from this diversity. I have honey, vegetables, but not red rice. Agroecology involves the identity, the local culture, diversity from that region, from the seeds or the quality of things I want to grow, that I want to eat.

It's not just something you put there, something standardized. Not everyone knows what we mean when we talk about creole seeds. Traditional communities and indigenous people are the guardians of this diversity.

Women farmers are the guardians of our seeds. In these seeds lies the great genetic heritage that has been produced, diversified, developed throughout our history as humankind. The market standardizes things and also the way we eat.

It introduces just one variety of corn for our meals, and ignores its diverse characteristics. Why is there a lighter one? A red one?

Maybe the lighter one is from periods of less rain. Maybe the red one can handle more rain. One can grow less, the other more.

Maybe the white one is good for making couscous, while the yellow one is not. So there is a very strong identity of our food security. So diversity has a meaning.

In principle, only those who wanted would use transgenic seeds. But it is very hard to find organic corn productions today, for instance. Because no one can prevent the corn pollen from flying away and falling at the farm of someone who grows creole seeds, who is working with creole, traditional seeds, that might have taken generations to produce that material.

Although people think agroecology is something you do in your back yard, just a small thing, we know it's not like that, because preserving nature is not a small thing at all. We don't destroy it. How could something that feeds nature, that preserves it, be small?

{\an8}FARMER -This is my back yard, {\an8}where we pick fruits to make fruit pulps. For us to get where we are, we know that, alone. .

. It's like the saying goes, "one swallow doesn't make a summer". We need partners.

It's like I always say, we do the hard work here, and Neneide does the best part for us, which is selling and finding buyers for our products. The selling, is what completes us. Let's say we have an order for 520 kg of bananas, the farmers over there can only provide 100 kg, so we call the farmers that are part of the network in another city and get the rest, or we can divide it with two more farmers.

We want organic food to be in public schools for kids that often don't have access to organic products at home. So if I put this product in schools, I assure their access to it. If I put this product in the Food Acquisition Program, for instance, it will be included in the basic food baskets donated to people with food insecurity.

In this case, they receive a high-quality product and it will show that it's possible for these people to eat organic food. So we deconstruct the myth that this product can only be produced on a small scale, is only meant for a few costumers, and not for everyone. If I have this program in schools in every town, I have the option of delivering my product in my own town, I don't need to go to a capital city with a supply center to deliver it.

So this is also a matter of logistics. It wouldn't work to buy a little bit from one farmer, a little bit from another farmer… So, you can buy in a collective manner. It may be a co-op, an association, they unite to deliver the products.

So it also encourages this collective process, which is very important for small producers. That's the freezer I could buy thanks to the sales I made through Xique Xique Network. This is where I store fruit, so I have it for the whole year.

There's also some fruit pulps. I use to say that when you buy something here you're not buying just a product, but also a story. To our achievements!

We sold a lot of fruit pulps, each producer received the same amount. Your mother bought something, too? What did she buy?

-She said. . .

-A freezer. Each of them bought something, because it was a huge sale. My daughter is not like me.

She grew up here. She is in college now. God willing, she'll graduate in June.

I am paying for her studies, thanks to my work here. She makes fruit pulps, too. She also acknowledges that today agriculture has some benefits.

Because it didn't used to be so organized that you could sell everything you produce. Everything. And like I said, at first, there was lot of acerola, passion fruit… golden apples, if you didn't give it to the animals, everything got muddy.

Today, we use everything. Even from the neighbors, they don't let it go to waste anymore. My ten acerola trees, with someone else's ten acerola trees, with someone else's ten acerola trees, so we can feed people and have a large-scale production.

But it's not just the ten acerola trees. It's also someone's ten mango trees, someone's ten golden apple trees. .

. So I manage to have a great diversity in my back yard, from which I can eat, but my diversity together with someone else's diversity it's already a large production. It's the same scale of production that a monoculture system can have.

So agroecology is all that. It leaves us hopeful, too. Life is completely different, no more canned food, now you can eat real food.

So it's nourishing, because it's good for your health. Let's talk about ingredients? Let's see what we've got here.

White flour, corn flour, sugar, soybean, soybean oil, these are the ingredients most produced by Brazilian agribusiness. This plate here has ingredients from the Cerrado, made by the Kalunga community. Here's an Amazonian plate.

Tacacá's ingredients. If you went there, you know it's something you eat on the streets. It's wonderful.

Entire communities of people who can live off what they sow, harvest and produce. This here isn't food. This is a commodity.

This here is not only food, it's food, culture, society, and health. {\an8}I always try to find out where my food comes from. {\an8}That's not always possible, because of my lifestyle, sometimes I buy things in the supermarket, but coming to the farmers'market is a way of connecting myself with the origins of the food I eat and also with the people who produce this food.

We're at the Ecological Farmers' Market of Bonfim. It's been here for over 20 years. It's the largest organic food market in Latin America.

There's Arborio rice for risotto, 0. 5 kg for BRL 5. 00.

Is it different? Yes, it's a different kind of rice. Arborio rice gets creamier.

{\an8}FILHOS DE SEPÊ SETTLEMENT - MST Today, I'm making a risotto, {\an8}and I know where the mushrooms and the rice come from. {\an8}I'll make a carreteiro gaúcho with the meat of animals we breed. I know where the rice and the spices come from.

Here it is, guys, the risotto. POISON KILLS Long live agrarian reform and agroecology! Hurray!

This photo is from December 10th 1995, when me and dozens of other families got our backpacks and went out fighting for the land. Here is the first photo of the camp, in Frederico Westphalen. I got my backpack with some old pots, a mattress, my mother asked me where I was going, I said: "I'm going camping".

I had just turned 18. A lot of these people are here in the settlement today. It takes at least 21 people to create a co-op.

But the organization didn't have 21 people to form a co-op. It was basically just men who took part in it. So they asked the female partners of those in the organization to sign on as partners so we could get 21 names.

That was vital for the project, so we accepted that offer. But with some reservations. {\an8}We'll take part as long as we can actively take part in the co-op.

If you look at the life of each one of us at the bakery today, you can see how it changed. The way they take part in it, not only working, but having an active role, working at the management of the co-op, I guess it was our greatest conquest. Actually, I'm pretty sure of it.

I went to college, to grad school, I went to a good high school, too, {\an8}and I'm grateful to the movement for it. {\an8}The fact that today I'm part of a community, of a co-op, it taught me a lot. If I want to eat cassava, I just harvest it and put it in the pot, I don't have to go to the grocery store, this is all because of what we learned together since the camp.

{\an8}There's no such thing as a food factory. {\an8}FARMER -There's only processing factories. The food comes from the earth.

Sometimes I go to the grocery store and I look at those… Those display racks, they put so much garbage in there, there's almost no food! And people take a lot of those things, spend a lot of money, and they don't take food home! They take some things that… {\an8}STUDENT -But speaking of processed food, {\an8}it's really bad for your health.

But it's tasty. I stopped eating it, but I know how hard it is to stop. When I grew up in the countryside, we practiced agroecology without knowing it.

There were no pesticides back then. Then I got kicked out of the countryside. How is that possible?

That's agribusiness. The more I worked, the poorer I became. Because what was left?

Some people gave up their land to pay off their debts at the bank. And then, took off. Left everything and just took off.

So thousands and thousands of people went to the city. No one wanted to go there, it's not like they thought it was better, they just didn't have anything left to do in the countryside. When I got here, we started trying to make this project work, to plant and produce without pesticides.

My parents used to do it, why couldn't we? Brazil's and Latin America's agroecological movement has a much stronger social and territorial aspect than Europe's agroecological movement, for instance. But in Europe, the agrarian reform already happened.

There aren't any great landed estates specializing in agriculture over there. It's something completely different. Here, we still have a strong relation with that.

As long as territorial issues, issues of the traditional communities, regularization of quilombola areas, the protection of indigenous lands and traditional people are not fixed. . .

All of this must be fixed, because it's the foundation. There is no agroecology without farmers, traditional people and communities. Because that's the foundation of agroecology, of the diversity we need.

The greatest achievement of the settlements and COPERAV was breaking the paradigm, so to speak, that agroecology is made in gardens, in the back yard. We produce to feed millions of people. THE LANDLESS WORKERS' MOVEMENT (MST) IS THE GREATEST PRODUCER OF ORGANIC RICE IN LATIN AMERICA We produce healthy food without depending on multinationals, on genetically modified seeds, pesticides, synthetic fertilizers.

That's taken a lot of work, persistence, study and organization. When we conceived this place, we wanted to make an agroforestry belt to protect the marsh that's here in the region. The marsh, a conservation area, is favorable for producing rice.

The edges are the elevated areas where the 376 families live. This is the driest area. And this conservation area has a lot of important species, {\an8}endangered, endemic species, {\an8}some of them only exist in here.

Among them, one species stands out, a large-sized mammal called marsh deer. This is the only place in all of Rio Grande do Sul where this species is preserved. Nature needs balance.

And balance in the countryside produces also balance in the city. Not only in regard to the food that goes to the city, but also to environmental balance, the water quality, the air quality, for instance. What happens in the countryside and what happens in the city are connected.

Because the production in the countryside goes to the city. It's inevitable. The city doesn't produce its own food.

Although the factories are in the city, the raw material for the food factories must come from the countryside. So that's the question: Which countryside? Produced how and by who?

Pests, for instance. Why does this production depend so much on pesticide? Because it's monotonous.

So, if a pest comes inside, it will take over all of it. The answer to each new problem in production was increasing inputs and fertilizers. There's a new disease?

Put more pesticide. And now, to complete this delicious recipe, a very special ingredient. Glyphosate.

Would you give this tapioca to your family? MOST USED PESTICIDE IN BRAZIL -The WHO condemns the use of glyphosate because of its health risks. In Europe, the maximum tolerated limit of glyphosate in drinking water waste is 0.

1 ng/L. In Brazil, the law tolerates up to 500 ng/L. That is, five thousand times more.

To make clear what five thousand times more means, remember that drop? That I put on the tapioca? It would be something like this.

But who make these laws? The land is the first conquest. To be able to organize your own production, that's the greatest challenge.

In a country that doesn't incentivize healthy food, that makes way for the approval of pesticides. It's possible to have a country that preserves the environment, takes care of its forests, of its animals, and produces food on a large scale, that is possible. A conquest like that is huge.

It was always our dream to be able to produce our own rice, and that people know its origin, that it came from the settlement, from a co-op, from a group that works for healthy eating and for life. It gets me so emotional. BETWEEN 2020 AND 2021, MST PRODUCED OVER 1.

3 MILLION BUSHELS OF ORGANIC RICE IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL, CULTIVATED BY APPROXIMATELY 400 FAMILIES SETTLED BY AGRARIAN REFORM. DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN BRAZIL, FROM MARCH 2020 TO NOVEMBER 2021, FAMILY FARMING MOVEMENTS DONATED AT LEAST 10,000 TONS OF FOOD AND OVER 1. 7 MILLION READY-TO-EAT MEALS TO VULNERABLE FAMILIES DESPITE THE CONTINUED DECREASE IN GOVERNMENT SUPPORT IN RECENT YEARS, FAMILY FARMING IN BRAZIL FEEDS MORE HEALTHY FOOD TO BRAZILIANS THAN ANY OTHER SECTOR A FEW EXAMPLES: 70% OF THE CASSAVA, 42% OF THE BLACK BEANS, 50% OF THE COFFEE, 67% OF THE PINEAPPLES AND 49% OF THE BANANAS CONSUMED IN BRAZIL COME FROM FAMILY FARMING (IBGE).

DO YOU KNOW THE PEOPLE WHO PRODUCE YOUR FOOD?