Lula is launching the ‘Brazil Without Hunger’ plan to eliminate food insecurity. The initiative aims to remove Brazil from the UN Hunger Map by 2030.
The event in Teresina, Piauí, will host representatives from 24 ministries of CAISAN. The plan aims to reduce households’ poverty rates and severe food insecurity annually.
The Planalto reports the project includes 80 federal government actions and programs. These are organized into three main axes:
Access to income, work, and citizenship: Integrating policies like Bolsa Família, Active Search, minimum wage appreciation, productive inclusion, professional training, and the National Food Program in the SUAS.
It also includes mapping and integrating existing social benefits in states and municipalities.
Adequate and healthy food, from production to consumption: This involves actions like the Family Agriculture Harvest Plan, food security in cities, combating waste, an Agroecological Policy, the National Supply Policy, the PNAE, the PAA, Rural Promotion, and forming food stocks.
Mobilization to combat hunger: This involves strengthening the Sisan, adhering states, municipalities, and federal entities, organizing caravans throughout Brazil for a Brazil Without Hunger campaign, and organizing a network of civil society initiatives.
The UN’s SOFI report from July shows that Brazil has 21 million people without enough daily food, 70.3 million in food insecurity, and 10 million malnourished people.
Food insecurity is when people lack sufficient food. Since the last FAO/UN disclosure, nine million more Brazilians have become food insecure.
Globally, 29.5% of the world’s population, or 2.3 billion people, face moderate or severe food insecurity.