{"id":18166,"date":"2018-02-06T14:03:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T14:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.impactmania.com\/im\/first-urban-farm-latin-america-working-uns-sdg\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T17:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:16:58","slug":"first-urban-farm-latin-america-working-uns-sdg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impactmania.com\/im\/first-urban-farm-latin-america-working-uns-sdg\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Urban Farm in Latin America working with UN&#8217;s SDG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>impactmania<\/em> announced a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impactmania.com\/6072\/newton-paiva-university-brazil-impactmania-announce-partnership\/\">partnership<\/a><\/strong> with Newton Paiva University in Brazil, October 2017. Here is the first video story about a startup that matters created in partnership with Newton Paiva.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to <em>impactmania\u2019s<\/em> video story about a social enterprise,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NdppP93XOTE&amp;t=23s\">Jaipur Rugs<\/a>,<\/strong> in India that went on to be featured at the United Nations (2017), here we feature the first commercial urban farm in Latin America! A social enterprise working with UN&#8217;s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6520\" style=\"width: 728px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6520\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.impactmania.com\/im\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/BeGreen.jpg\" alt=\"BeGreen located in a mall, offering jobs to young people; producing vegetables at large scale, minimizing waste and with significantly less water usage. \" width=\"718\" height=\"1280\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BeGreen is located in a mall; offering jobs to young people, producing vegetables at large scale, minimizing waste and water usage.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Newton Paiva students and faculty selected to feature <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.begreen.farm\/\">BeGreen<\/a><\/strong>, a for-profit and for-purpose enterprise, that produces 40.000 head of lettuces and other vegetables in a shopping mall, increasing productivity by 20 times, reducing water consumption by 90 percent compared to conventional agriculture, and eliminating waste in the supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>See here the video story by Newton Paiva and <em>impactmania<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"One of the First Commercial Urban Farm in Latin America\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lSTuhsFx-Hs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>impactmania announced a partnership with Newton Paiva University in Brazil, October 2017. 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