The country had returned to the list in 2021, due to the crisis caused by the pandemic Covid-19
THE United Nations (a) announced, at the beginning of this week, during the 2nd dome of food systems, that the Brazil left the Hunger map. The data come from the report “Food and nutritional security status in the 2025 world (Sofi 2025)”.
Brazil leaves the hunger map
The international study, conducted by United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO), analyzed indexes of the last three years. Therefore, the average between 2022 and 2024 showed that the metric of ‘Prevalence of malnutrition’ of the country is less than 2.5%. The component measures the amount of people who live at risk of malnutrition.
This is the second time that Brazil reaches the finish line. The first occurred in 2014. However, in 2021, during the pandemic crisis COVID-19, The nation returned to the map after the estimate climbed to 3.4%. There was also an increase in the following year, going to 4.2%. The three -year period 2022/2024, however, has shown a significant drop, indicating that a smaller part of the population suffers from the lack of food.
But according to the Sofi report, moderate food insecurity still affects 13.5% of Brazilians. In the case of the tomb, which evaluates the degree of uncertainty for a family in order to have meals a day, the number drops to 3.4%.
What explains the result?
In an interview with ‘Fao Newsroom’Chief economist of FAO, Massimo Tooreroattributed the progress of South America, mainly Brazil and from Mexicoto “Income transfer programs”. Public policies, such as the Bolsa family and the Emergency helpaims to make resources available for vulnerable families.
“These programs have been highly effective in preventing these individuals fall even more in poverty improving the distribution of income”, declared.
In addition, the spokesman underlined the role of investments to increase agricultural production and efficiency. “Brazil, Uruguay AND Paraguay These are the main global exporters of cereals, significantly increasing both local and internal availability (…) This combination of robust social protection measures and an increase in agricultural productivity has played a crucial role in its success “, he said.
Source: Terra
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