Policies

My House, My Debt?*

Clique aqui para Português View original article in Portuguese here. Article by Raquel Rolnik, Special Rapporteur to the UN on Adequate Housing. Researchers from IPEA, the Institute for Applied Economic Research, recently published a study that suggests that […]

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The Story of Dona Rita

Clique aqui para Português For 12 years, Dona Rita Maria Barbosa, 56, kept an organic garden supplying her local community in Colônia Juliano Moreira (in Jacarepaguá, West Zone) with fresh fruit and vegetables and teaching […]

Favela Qualities

Asset Mapping Pica-Pau

Click here to see Pica-Pau on the EcoCitizen World Map! Equipped with a GPS, voice recorder, and pair of cameras, my partner Ana Puhač and I entered Pica-Pau, Cordovil looking to compose a profile of […]