“The problem is that the income is not distributed equally. Some eat 10 times a day and others don’t eat for 10 days. We have to correct that. That’s why I have the obsession to fight hunger,” Lula said at an event in Teresina, a municipality in the state of Piauí (northeast).
This program, which includes 80 public actions and policies, was modeled on the successful Zero Hunger Initiative launched in 2003 during Lula’s first term in office.
For the former union member, “there is nothing holier than a mother who can gather her family around a table and serve them plenty of food every day, so that people can eat until they are full, until they say they don’t want any more. “.”
He recalled that the South American giant disappeared from the United Nations hunger map in 2014, but the abandonment of public policy led to its return years later.
The plan, approved by the Interministerial Chamber for Food and Food Security, brings together 24 ministries and is divided into three central axes, according to Valéria Burity, Extraordinary Secretary for the Fight against Hunger in the Department of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight against Hunger.
First, it brings together measures to ensure access to income, public social protection policies and the promotion of citizenship.
Tasks are then recorded, ranging from the production to the consumption of sufficient and healthy food.
And finally he advocates the mobilization of the other forces of the state, the federal units and civil society.
Last year, at least one in four Brazilians said they did not have the amount of food needed to feed their family at home as a result of the disastrous and exclusionary policies of the former government of Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022).
The feeling of food insecurity particularly affected the poorest families and the regions in the north and northeast.
Experts said the problem is exacerbated when one takes into account high unemployment rates and the return to employment in more precarious and low-paid jobs.
They denounced that Brazil has gone back 30 years and is back on the map of hunger, with a contingent of more than 33 million people without basic food, representing 15 percent of a population estimated at just over 213 million inhabitants.
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