{"id":77818,"date":"2024-04-03T11:06:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T14:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=77818"},"modified":"2024-05-13T17:36:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T20:36:18","slug":"meet-valdirene-militao-an-urban-farmer-fighting-for-the-self-reliance-of-favela-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=77818","title":{"rendered":"Meet Valdirene Milit\u00e3o: An Urban Farmer and Creative Recycler Fighting for the Self-Reliance of Favela Women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Valdirene Milit\u00e3o in a sustainable toy workshop at the Zilda Arns daycare center in Col\u00f4nia Juliano Moreira, in Jacarepagu\u00e1, in Rio’s West Zone. Photo: Personal archives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas<\/strong><\/i><\/em><\/i><\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n

Valdirene Oliveira Milit\u00e3o<\/a>, affectionately known as Val in the Roquete Pinto<\/a> favela in Complexo da Mar\u00e9<\/a>, located in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone<\/a>, where she has lived for 52 years, embodies the possibility of everyday sustainable practices accessible to favela residents. Agroecology<\/a> and sustainability, which increasingly gain space in public debate, are knowledge passed down in the favela in an affectionate and local manner by elders. Yet, these grassroots insights are made invisible and delegitimized for being practical, conceived through lived experience<\/a> and need, through \u201cpretagogias<\/a>\u201d\u00a0[Black pedagogical practices]. Such values only become accepted and seen as a solution when they are whitewashed and transformed into commodities, into tools of control.<\/p>\n

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