The Belém Declaration marks a turning point: Social protection is no longer just a stopgap for climate shocks. And it must be at the center of any strategy to reduce global hunger.
Category: food security
A World Still Hungry: The Uneven Toll of Food Inflation
The full-blown food crisis predicted during the pandemic never materialized, showing the global agrifood system has built resilience to withstand shocks like pandemics, wars, and economic swings. The past five years offer lessons on what worked and what didn’t.
India Can Turn Hunger Gains Into Lasting Change
India’s gains in fighting hunger are the result of its policy investments in food security.
Latin America and the Caribbean Lead the Way Toward a Future Without Hunger
On a planet with enough resources to feed everyone, hunger is a man-made tragedy.
10 Trillion Dollars, the Hidden Costs of Our Food (Español)
For low-income countries, the hidden costs of agri-food systems represent more than a quarter of their GDP, and half of these costs are social costs due to poverty and malnutrition.
How Automation Can Help Produce More Food With Less Resources (Español)
The solution is to produce more food with fewer resources; for this, automation offers an opportunity.
Investment in the Rural Economy Reduces Pressure to Migrate Internationally
Greater attention to rural areas holds important promise to accelerate poverty reduction, increase food security, and reduce migratory pressures.
To Achieve Human Rights, Start with Food
That fundamental right every one of us is entitled to — to be free from hunger — is at risk today like never before. We must take a human rights-based approach so as to apply human rights principles in our efforts.
Ending Hunger: A Dream or Still a Possibility?
At the 1974 World Food Congress in Rome, Henry Kissinger declared that in 10 years no child would go to bed hungry. Although his prediction did not come true, the decades that followed marked steady progress against hunger.
Ukraine’s Grain Shipments Are Not Enough to Tackle Global Hunger Crisis
Even the lifting of the blockade of Ukrainian ports will not miraculously solve a crisis that is global in scope. Instead, a structural overhaul of a system that is bloated, inefficient and hypocritical is long overdue.
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Should Not Cause a Hunger Crisis
The trade fallout of the Russia-Ukraine conflict would be devastating for the world’s poor for whom inflation has put even the most basic foods beyond reach.
The Food Trade Can’t Stop (Español)
In this difficult time, we should tighten health protocols in agro-industrial value chains but without curbing the mobility of food or key inputs. Otherwise, the consequences could be extremely serious.
Maximo Torero 