Abstract
Nowadays, most of the Brazilian population is living in cities, and slums are growing with poor living conditions, in a context of enormous social-economic inequality. One of the local challenges is the poor nutrition of its inhabitants, along with the high cost of healthier food. This paper presents the results of an urban gardening project, developed through the partnership of universities, communities and public institutions at the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. It represents university research and extension projects on building community gardens, aiming at the constitution of a social-economic innovative process to increase local social cohesion, popular protagonism and food sovereignty. Each garden that is part of the Community Gardening Project is facing particular challenges in relation to its social, environmental and economic sustainability, but the initiative is proving to be a significant alternative to humanize those spaces, systemically bringing together approaches as Systemic Design, Agroecology and Food Sovereignty and Solidarity Economy, Integral Endeavours and developing cooperative and innovative actions.
Highlights
In September 2015 at a United Nations Summit, have decided to fight against some global long-lasting problems related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice, proposing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals as part of a global agenda fixing some targets for 2030
“Over the fifteen years, with these new Goals that universally apply to all, countries will mobilize efforts to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind” (United Nations, 2018)
According to Embrapa (2006) Agroecology aims at fulfilling the economic level, the ecological level, the social level, the cultural level, the political level and ethical level
Summary
In September 2015 at a United Nations Summit, have decided to fight against some global long-lasting problems related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice, proposing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals as part of a global agenda fixing some targets for 2030. Systemic Design is one of the methodologies available that presents principles, methods and tools to structure the work using a holistic mode (Bistagnino, 2009; Mendonça, 2014; Jones, 2014). Working with this methodology already for some years has provided the opportunity to put some of its theory into practice and to recognize the complementarities and intersections with other known approaches. Its association with values and concepts that are becoming increasingly widespread, such as the Circular Economy, Agroecology, Social and Solidarity Economy, shows a potential of producing substantial changes in contemporary societies Those are subjects that are going to be discussed in this article. The concepts and principles used by the academic working group as foundation of its work will be presented, as well as the motivation of each group to engage in this initiative
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