Rio de Janeiro
Luana Nascimento sorts the leftovers in the huge Rio de Janeiro wholesale market, in Iraja, in the very poor neighborhoods in the north of the “marvelous city”.
In front of the Frutos do Brasil vending machine, she piles up loose fruit and vegetables in her shopping cart: potatoes, green cabbages, onions, tomatoes, chuchus (a type of zucchini) and, wonderful find, a crate of strawberries.
Like this 37-year-old woman, 125 million Brazilians - or 58.7% of the population - suffer from varying degrees of hunger, a 60% increase in four years.
Among them, 33 million have nothing to put on the table.
Figures, recently disclosed by the Brazilian Food Sovereignty and Security Research Network (PENSSAN), which bring the largest country in Latin America back thirty years.
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Luana is at home in the Ceasa market, which is the second largest in Latin America.
“I was raised here.
My father and my grandmother, already, also came to collect the scraps”
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