In 2022, 33 million people were in severe conditions of lack of access to food.
The Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, presented this Thursday, August 31, the ambitious plan to remove the South American country from the world hunger map.
After defeating Jair Bolsonaro in the 2022 elections, Lula affirmed that his third term would have as its cornerstone “end hunger again“One day after completing eight months in the Presidency, the patriarch of the Workers’ Party (PT) presented the new plan to combat food insecurity, hoping to replicate the success of his previous program.”Zero Hunger‘.
From the city of Teresina, capital of the Piaui state (Northeast region), Lula’s Government announces the Brazil Without Hunger planthe set of policies that seeks to help 33 million people which are in serious food insecurity situation in the country.
“So that the worker can once again have his three meals in a dignified manner and provide quality food to his children,” Lula summarized the day before, in a message published on the social network X.
I embarked for Teresina, Piaui, where I participated in the ceremony for the launch of Brazil Sem Fome. I have said that the fight à fome is my greatest goal in life. That the worker can return to eating three meals in a dignified manner and can offer quality food for…
– Lula (@LulaOficial) August 31, 2023
What does Brazil Without Hunger contain?
The program integrates 80 social policies and actions articulated at the municipal, state and federal level.
With Brazil Without Hunger, Lula’s Government will seek to increase income for the purchase of food, expand social protection policies, as well as production and access to healthy and sustainable foods.
Among the new components of the plan is the integration of “food security, assistance and health systems”explained Valeria Burity, extraordinary secretary of Fight against Hunger of the Ministry of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight against Hunger.
The program has a hundred goals, although there is one main indicator that has been proposed: reducing, year after year, the total poverty rates, reducing the percentage of households in severe food insecurity by five points.
Source: RT
