Brazil to host meeting with African agriculture ministers
Brazil will host a meeting with African agriculture ministers in May. This will be the first high-level gathering under the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty, launched at the 2024 G20 Summit. The meeting will focus on ways to increase agricultural productivity.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva shared the information on Thursday (Jan. 30) in Brasília during an interview with journalists at the Planalto presidential palace.
“We will hold a meeting to showcase Brazil’s strengths, take the ministers to the field to observe firsthand, and then organize a technical session, coordinated by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation Embrapa and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to share knowledge with our African partners and explore ways to combat hunger,” said Lula.
The alliance includes 82 countries, 24 international organizations, nine financial institutions, and 34 philanthropic and non-governmental organizations. Its objectives include reaching 500 million people with income transfers, providing school meals to 150 million children, offering pregnancy monitoring to 200 million women and healthcare to children under six, and creating employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for 100 million people.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that between 713 million and 757 million people may have faced hunger in 2023—one in every 11 people globally and one in every five in Africa.
