Editing Belo Horizonte (section)

===Human development===
[[File:Praca_da_Liberdade_BH_17_Jan_2019_02.jpg|thumb|[[Savassi]] is a developed neighbourhood in Belo Horizonte.]]

In 1993, under mayor Patrus Ananias de Souza, the city started a series of innovations based on its citizens having the "[[right to food]]." These include, for example, creating [[farmers' market]]s in the town to enable direct sales and regularly surveying market prices and posting the results across the city.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.alternatives.ca/auteur/cecilia-rocha?lang=en|archive-url=https://archive.today/20110728120641/http://www.alternatives.ca/auteur/cecilia-rocha?lang=en|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-07-28|title=Belo Horizonte: The Beautiful Horizon of Community Food Sovereignty|publisher=Alternatives International Journal|location=Quebec, Canada|access-date=2009-11-10|year=2008|author=Wayne Roberts and Cecilia Rocha}}</ref> The city's process of [[participatory budgeting]] was linked with these innovations, as a result of which the [[infant mortality rate]] was reduced by 50% in a decade.<ref>FRANCIS MOORE LAPPÉ, ''Yes Magazine,'' January 29, 2019. [https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/food-everyone/2019/01/29/this-city-made-access-to-food-a-right-of-citizenship The City that ended hunger]. [Reprint of original, from March 2009]</ref><ref name="thesis">M. Jahi Chappell, 2018, ''[https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520293090/beginning-to-end-hunger Beginning to end hunger: Food and the environment in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and beyond]''. Berkeley: University of California Press.</ref>

There is some evidence that these programs have helped support a higher quality of life for the local farmers partnering with the city and that this may be having positive effects on biodiversity in the Atlantic rainforest around the city.<ref name="thesis" /><ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.ryerson.ca/foodsecurity/publications/papers/UrbanFoodPolicy.pdf |title=Urban Food Policies and Rural Sustainability: How the Municipal Government of Belo Horizonte, Brazil is Promoting Rural Sustainability |publisher=Centre for Studies in Food Security, and Department of Nutrition, Ryerson University |location=Toronto, Canada |access-date=2009-11-10 |year=2003 |author=Cecilia Rocha and Adriana Aranha |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090625191507/http://www.ryerson.ca/foodsecurity/publications/papers/UrbanFoodPolicy.pdf |archive-date= June 25, 2009 }}</ref> The city's development of these policies garnered the first "Future Policy Award" in 2009, awarded by the [[World Future Council]], a group of 50 activists (including [[Frances Moore Lappé]], [[Vandana Shiva]], [[Wes Jackson]], and [[Youssou N'Dour]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/the_councillors.html |title=Councillors |publisher=The World Future Council |access-date=2011-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523063243/http://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/the_councillors.html |archive-date=May 23, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>) concerned with the development and recognition of policies to promote a just and sustainable future.

The city has undertaken an internationally heralded project called Vila Viva ("Living Village" in Portuguese) that promises to "urbanize" the poorest areas (''[[favela]]s''), relocating families from areas with high risk of floods and landslides but keeping them in the same neighborhood, paving main avenues to allow public transportation, police and postal service to have access. All the work is done with 80% of locals, reducing unemployment and increasing family income.<ref name="mayor">{{cite web |url=http://www.worldmayor.com/manifestos05/belohorizonte_05.html |title=Belo Horizonte Mayor Fernando Damata Pimentel: A program of financial efficiency and social boldness |website=Worldmayor.com |access-date=2011-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514220216/http://www.worldmayor.com/manifestos05/belohorizonte_05.html |archive-date=May 14, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.favelaeissoai.com.br/noticias.php?cod=59 |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20101128030815/http://www.favelaeissoai.com.br/noticias.php?cod=59 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2010-11-28 |language=pt |title=Favela é isso ai |website=Favelaeissoai.com.br |date=January 18, 2010 |access-date=2011-04-17 }}</ref> Former mayor [[Fernando da Mata Pimentel]] was nominated for [[World Mayor]] in 2005 on the strength of these and other programs.<ref name="mayor"/>