More than 150 parliamentarians, from around 20 countries, will gather until Friday (16th) in Valparaiso, Chile, at the Second Global Parliamentary Summit against Hunger and Malnutrition. The event is organized by the United Nations Regional Office (UN) for Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO – Food and Agriculture Organization) for Latin America and the Caribbean and takes place at the headquarters of the Chilean National Congress, in Valparaíso. Latin America and the Caribbean has more than 400 legislators and has the support of the Spanish and Mexican Agencies for International Cooperation for Development (Aecid and Amexcid) and the European Commission.FAO understands that parliamentarians are actors of change and can play the role- key to creating laws and policies to eradicate hunger, promote healthy diets, protect natural resources, transform agricultural systems to be sustainable, efficient, resilient and inclusive, and reduce poverty and socioeconomic inequalities. Women are more affected At the opening ceremony of the meeting, this Thursday (15), the FAO regional representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, Uruguayan Mario Lubetkin, presented the current scenario of the problem in the world, saying that there “a dramatic increase in famine figures,” reaching 828 million people. Mario Lubetkin pointed out the main causes of hunger: conflicts, climate threats, the ovid-19 pandemic, the economic slowdown, which put the development of nations at risk, and increases in food prices. “Rising consumer food prices have impacted the number of people unable to access a healthy diet, reaching nearly 3.1 billion,” said Lubetkin. According to FAO, women are the most affected by food insecurity and hunger. “The prevalence of moderate and severe food insecurity increased during the pandemic and affected women’s economic opportunities.” At the other end of malnutrition, Lubetkin highlighted that overweight and obesity are increasingly common among children, young people and adults and are increasing in all regions of the world, as a result of poor nutrition, with unhealthy diets. The FAO representative warns that half of the deadline has already been reached for the world to achieve the second objective of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations (UN). The goal is to end hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture by 2030. “Zero hunger and the eradication of poverty require the firm and effective participation of each one of us and the great responsibility of elaborate laws that promote a safe environment, guaranteeing the right to food”, emphasizes Lubetkin. The host of the Parliamentary Summit, the President of Chile, Gabriel Boric Font (pictured), emphasized that the challenge against hunger does not recognize borders. “If there was only one person going hungry, it would already be scandalous, but there are 828 million people and, therefore, this issue is tremendously important”, said Boric. Chilean president asked for unity. wars and the forced displacement of refugees as aggravating factors of hunger in the world. [2030] is threatened by war, at any latitude. We see the effects in our country [Chile] and in the world for the export of wheat from Ukraine. We know that many other countries that are experiencing the pain of war immediately suffer hunger. Hunger is easily exported and we can also see it in the phenomenon of migration”. Brazil The Brazilian Parliament is represented at the FAO summit by the coordinator of the Joint Parliamentary Front for Food and Nutritional Sovereignty and Security and Combating Hunger in Brazil, Deputy Padre João (PT-MG) and Federal Deputies Bohn Gass (PT-RS ) and Heitor Schuch (PSB–RS), in addition to the state deputy from Rio Grande do Sul, Laura Sito (PT), coordinator of the Rio Grande do Sul parliamentary front with the same objective. The Mixed Parliamentary Front of the National Congress, installed on May 3, has 202 federal deputies and 17 supporting senators. The Brazilians traveled to Chile to share experiences in implementing legislation on food and nutrition security. In a video released on a social network, this Wednesday (14), already in the Andean country, Deputy Father João made a retrospective of the Brazilian situation since 2014, when the country had left the United Nations Hunger Map. “With a coup and with the Bolsonaro government, with the dismantling of the Brazilian State, the extinction of Consea [Conselho Nacional de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional]the extinction of budgets for PAA [Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos] and the PNAE [Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar], from the Ministry of Agrarian Development, so the whole apparatus that removed Brazil from the Hunger Map was dismantled!”, said the congressman. Father João detailed the current scenario in Brazil on this topic. “Now how [presidente] Squid back, then comes the food on the table; and the education that is also structuring.” Finally, in the video, the Brazilian parliamentarian advances what he will share in the plenary session with parliamentarians from Latin America and the Caribbean, during the summit. “The fight against inequalities needs to go to the root. It’s true that Betinho is still right: ‘If you’re hungry, you’re in a hurry’. But he doesn’t resolve to put out fires without going to the cause of the problem”. Betinho is the nickname of sociologist and activist Herbert José de Souza, founder of the non-governmental organization (NGO) Ação da Cidadania contra a Fome, who died in 1997.
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