In 10 Years, Number of Favelas Doubles in Brazil

[Judi Lynn]

The country had 20 million people without enough food in December, and inflation will worsen the scenario

Oct.14.2021 1:33PM

Fernando Canzian

SÃO PAULO
According to the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), the total number of favelas in Brazil has more than doubled in the last decade, jumping from 6,329 to 13,151, according to the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics).

With higher unemployment and falling incomes, homes with an irregular urban pattern and without basic sanitation were 5.1 million in 2019, the most recent data.

The number is another reflection of the increase in poverty in the country, where almost 20 million (9%) declared that they had spent 24 hours or more without having eaten in a few days; 24.5 million (11%) have worsened their diet, not sure how they would eat that day, and another 74 million (35%) feared going through it.

The information comes from a survey by the Brazilian Research Network on Sovereignty and Food and Nutritional Security that was completed in December and conducted by researchers who validated the Brazilian Scale of Food Security used by IBGE.

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1. When I was a kid I read the book "Child Of The Dark"

Child of the Dark. The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus

It stayed with me forever. Recommended.

In 1947, when she was thirty-four years of age, Carolina Maria de Jesus came to the favela of Canindé, one of the slums of the Brazilian city of São Paulo. Unemployed, pregnant, and abandoned by the Portuguese sailor who had been her lover, she collected boards at a construction site five miles from the favela, carried them there on her head, and with her own hands built the shack which was to be her home. There she began a struggle for survival, made even more desperate by the three children she bore—the sailor’s son who came three months after her arrival, a second son in 1950 fathered by a Spaniard “who was white and gave [her] . . . love and money” before he returned to Europe and, in 1953, a daughter by a shameless Brazilian defined as “a rich white man.” To escape from her misery Carolina spent her spare moments in writing futile, imaginative novels which, with their portrayal of life in palaces where all was beauty, found no eventual favor with the Reader’s Digest when submitted to its editor; fortunately, she also wrote this precious diary of her own life.

[Thunderbeast]

2. Sadly...

The number of favelas in west coast cities has also exploded.