At the G7, Brazil signs a joint declaration to fight hunger

The President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, signed, in Hiroshima (Japan), early this Saturday (20) – Saturday afternoon at Japanese time – a joint declaration with proposals to guarantee food security in the world. The document was signed by chief executives from 14 other countries during the extended G7 summit. The Hiroshima Declaration of Actions for Resilient Food Security aims to ensure policies to eradicate hunger in the world, with the supply of nutritious, affordable and safe food and with resilient, sustainable and inclusive agricultural processes. According to a note released by the Presidency of the Republic, the summit participants assess that, in the short term, the covid-19 pandemic, international prices of energy, food and fertilizers, the impacts of climate change and conflicts such as the war of Ukraine threaten global food security. Participants’ assessment is that, in the medium term, it is necessary to prepare countries to quickly prevent and remedy food security crises in the future. On a longer-term horizon, the intention is to achieve global food security in a resilient way, ensuring nutrition for all. The document was signed by the leaders of Brazil, Japan, Australia, Canada, Comoros, Cook Islands, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam and the European Union. Indonesia Earlier, still on Friday night (Brazilian time), Lula met with the president of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, with whom he discussed the preservation of the environment and the creation of an international group involving both countries, in addition to of the Democratic Republic of Congo and other Amazonian nations to protect rainforests. These three regions bring together the largest areas of this type of vegetation on the entire planet. According to the Presidency of the Republic, the two presidents agreed on the war between Russia and Ukraine and Widodo stated that the world needs peace. The Indonesian said, according to information from the Brazilian government, that he had met Russian president Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in the past to discuss the problem of global food security with both countries, major grain exporters. Lula invited Widodo to visit Brazil and said that countries with large populations, such as Brazil and Indonesia, had to get closer. The Indonesian president stated, according to the Presidency, that he was interested in increasing imports of Brazilian products, especially animal protein.

Agência Brasil