agroecological fair in the university

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UFRJ Campus Agroecological FAIR

UFRJ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Key words: food, organic food

Context: The UFRJ Master Plan is targeted to reach 30000 of meals per day by 2020 (building new restaurants all over the Campus). With approximately 60,000 people per day, with about 1/3 of that total consisted of students, the university campus is a real city.

Foto: Imagens UFRJ Gabriela D’Araújo

Foto: overview of the Central University Restaurant in the UFRJ, in front of the building, the tends of the Agricultural Fair

Context 2: bring healthier and organic food forthe campus.

Context 3: Restaurants placed in a university should not only provide food to students, it should be a place of food education

Project: Fair Agroecological UFRJ

•Held weekly in the gardens of the Restaurant;•Small local producers of RJ;•Participatory project management;•Production flow by direct trade;•Conducting workshops, lectures and visits of the farmers concerned;•Possibility of exchanges between scientific and traditional knowledge.

•Possibility of exchanges between scientific and traditional knowledge.

Kids visiting Agroecological Fair

University students interacts with producers

Family farmers bringsWeekly their products to the Campus

Organic foods are presented and sold

Artisans products

Prepared organic foods sold at the Fair

Producers shows how to prepare and clean the Palmito Pupunha

Students present the concept of agroecology to visitors