From 2011-2017, GMF operated as a hands-on food security and urban restoration project located in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. GMF worked in collaboration with individuals, families, NGOs, schools, the private and public sector, and social innovators to remediate neglected and abused land; to cultivate food and water security; to establish more productive, environmentally responsible, and desirable green space; and to skill share with a wide range of participants. GMF’s Rocinha+Verde project was the first community garden created in the Rocinha favela of Rio, one of the largest urban favelas in Brazil. It was showcased at the United Nations Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development. GMF has partnered with several favela community members and organizations to remediate land and cultivate productive space in the favelas and has consulted for state and municipal government secretaries on a range of urban restoration projects. GMF has had a long-term relationship with Rio’s Municipal Secretary for the Environment’s Hortas Cariocas program, most notably in its collaboration to aid in co-producing the largest organic urban food garden in Latin America. The project is located in the Manguinhos favela, formerly the site of the city’s largest cracolândia. In 2017, GMF handed over the international volunteer arm of the project to ACE Projects. GMF continues to support the greening efforts of favela communities, and facilitates, interfaces with, and consults for a range of applied academics and researcher/practitioners across a range of fields and disciplines on an ongoing basis.