Urban AgricultureUA

Indicators

• Belo Horizonte - BH: Capital of Minas Gerais State and the 5th biggest capital of Brazil

• State of Minas Gerais: the third economy of Brazil

• 2,4 million inhabitants (IBGE. 2010)• Weather seasoned• Pioneer in Food and Nutritional Security • Area: 331 km². • No Rural Area (98% urbanized). However,

large amounts of “available” land around the capital (Periurban).

• Economically active population: 60,4% (DIEESE, 2012)

• Biome: Atlantic Rainforest in transition to Savannah.

• Main economical activity: services and industry

The aim of this axis is to promote and to foment the urban agriculture, through implementation of programs with participation of the civil society and spread of agricultural techniques of production and susteinability.

From seed to table Project

FOMENTATION URBAN AGRICULTURE IN BELO HORIZONTE

It´s an activity group that includes the cultivation of grain, medicinal plants, flowers, fruit species, forester handling, handcraft of food/drink and animal husbandry developed with these goals: own comsuption, exchange, donation or marketing. Is conduced by groups which split the growing areas, the labor, the expenses and the production of vegetables in public and private areas, where predominate the family or colective working relations. (Municipal Law n. 10.255/11)

Urban Agriculture Definition

To stablish a Social Contract:

Clear objetives and goals to be reached; Rules of coexistence; Individual Responsability; Day by day distribution of duties

Agricultor Organization (cooperative or associations)

STAGES OF CONSTRUCTION OF THE PRACTICE

TRAINING FOR THE AGRO-ECOLOGICAL BASED PRODUCTION

• Forest Handling• Preparation and Cares with the ground;• What and when to plant;• Planting forms;• Seedling production;• Planning and production scheduling;• Crop rotation• Preparation and use of Biopreparations (composting,

fertilizers and insecticides;• Rational use of water;• Quality Control: sanity, packaging, transportation.

STAGES OF CONSTRUCTION OF THE PRACTICE

• Relationship with the client;

• Business Administration;

• Accounting;

• Training of customers:

Direct sell: neighbors, passers-by, fairs

Institucional Market: public and private schools, hospitals, restaurants.

CommercializationSTAGES OF CONSTRUCTION OF THE PRACTICE

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT: ROLE OF THE MUNICIPALITYFirst steps of implementation

Food and nutritional assistance during the implementation phase and viability of the enterprise;

Identify and assign public areas for the implementation of the project;

Deploy necessary infrastructure: fencing the area, water, greenhouse;

Provide inputs: organic compound, seeds, seedlings, tools, biopreparations;

Make the training of farmers;

Give technical support.

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT: ROLE OF THE MUNICIPALITY

Feasibility of commercialization•Create selling points in the municipality;

•Buy the products for the public food programs;

•Maintain the technical assistance;

•Encourage and support the formation of associations and cooperatives;

•Forward farmers for organizational and financial autonomy

PRODUCTION OF SEEDLINGS: VILA PINHO COMMUNITY GARDEN AND ZOO-BOTÂNICA FOUDATION

Installing the Community

Garden Barreiro 2005

First Harvest , jul 2005

Partnership: Banco do Brasil Foundation, Regional Administrations, Education Municipal Secretary, NGO Francisco de Assis de Amparo and Protection to the Child and Adolescent, EMATER.

Jardim Produtivo Vila Viva Taquaril

COMUNNITY GARDEN

. Commercialization

THE COMMUNITY GAINS

Improves the living conditions of social groups, in particular, those who live in a situation of food and nutritional insecurity because:

• Provides income generation;• Increases job opportunities;• Brings people together;• Provides more health and economics• Increases the offer of food of quality• Contributes to the increase of its consumption • Reduces of the final price• Reduces wastage due to the direct sale to the final consumer;• Rescues farmer activity, brought from rural area.

School Gardens and Common Use Vegetable Gardens

• Promotes the implementation of vegetable gardens in the physical spaces of schools, nurseries, shelters, with the planting of vegetables;

• Aiming at the complementation of food and helping in others aspects;

• Become a space for learning and valorization for heath food;

EDGAR DA MATA MACHADO SCHOOL

Improve the lives of social groups, specially of those who lives in food and nutritional insecurity because:

• Provides income generation;• Increase the job opportunity;• Bring people together• Provides more health and economy;• Improve the supply of food with high quality;• Contribute to a greater consumption;• Reduce the final price• Reduce the waste because they sell directly to final

consumer;• Rescue the agriculture from rural area.

It promotes the practice of fruit cultivation in common use and school spaces and others in he community, aiming at the auto-supply and the enlargement and preservation of green urban areas.

Objective: to encourage the creation of orchards in homes, community spaces, and schools in the municipality, making use of vacant spaces, seeking self-sufficiency and expansion of the vegetative cover in the city.

Conditionalities: phyisical space, and someone responsible for maintenance.

Procedures: Technical orientation about planting and maintenance of fruit saplings and organic compost, and technical assistance.

Partnerships: EMATER-MG, Federal Government.

Pro-Orchard Project

Results for 2013:

Project Number of Vegetal Gardens

Number ofFamilies/ People beneficed

School Vegetable Garden 139 101.000 Students

Community Vegetable Garden

3 30 families

Common Use Vegetable Gardens

45 11.500 people

Project Number of Vegetal Gardens

Number ofFamilies/ People beneficed

School Vegetable Garden 139 101.000 Students

Community Vegetable Garden

3 30 families

Common Use Vegetable Gardens

45 11.500 people

● Planting in Alternative Spaces Workshops Project: Through workshops, it promotes and encourages techniques for the production of vegetables, spices and medicinal plants in alternative spaces, such as plastic bottles, wood boxes, and others

● PURPOSE: To teach cultivation practices for herb and vegetable gardening in disposable materials (tires, wood crates, pvc tubing, plastic soda bottles, etc.)

● BENEFICIARIES: Communities of “villas,” health centers, asylums, and the general public.

● Conditions: pre-registration, disposable materials. ● Procedures: seed and seedling donations, informational flyers. ● Number of workshops conducted in 2013: 118

Beneficiaries: 2,038

Workshops for Cultivation in Alternatives Spaces

NURSERY WORKSHOP

• To be recognised as an alternative to increase the social equidity and to improve quality of life;

• To strenghten the small farmers protagonism and their ways of organization;

• To increase and improve the dialogue between the UA and the social and urban policy makers;

• To improve the use of the productive areas, insuring access of the urban area;

• To increase the production and access to fresh food by the population;

• To have legal mechanisms in the city policies that support the interaction among production, food processing and commercialization.

• To develop technologies to better integrate the use of local natural resources, especially water.

Challenges for urban agriculture in BH