Brazilian City Eliminates Hunger

For only 2% of its budget

clipped from www.treehugger.com Brazilian City Makes Food A Basic Right And Ends Hunger Restaurant Popular (People's Restaurant) by Bruno Spada/MDS Back in 1993, the newly elected city government of Belo Horizonte, Brazil declared that food was a right of citizenship. At that time, the city of 2.5 million had 275,000 people living in absolute poverty, and close to 20 percent of its children were going hungry. Since the declaration the city has all but wiped out hunger and only spends 2% of the city budget to do so. Article continues: Brazilian City Makes Food A Basic Right And Ends Hunger