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Frances Moore Lappé

Belo Horizonte, Brazil - By Benjamin Thompson (Flickr: Belo Horizonte, Brazil) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

The City that Ended Hunger

Dec. 13, 2012

A Yes magazine article by Frances Moore Lappé tells the story of how Brazil's fourth largest city, Belo Horizonte, tackled the issue of hunger. Using a combination of policy and market measures, along with citizen engagement, the city reached nearly 40 percent of it's 2.5 million citizens through various hunger relief and nutrition efforts and…

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