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Upon assuming the G20 presidency last December, South Africa chose “solidarity, equality and sustainability” as its theme. Far from being an empty slogan, this vision reflects the principles on which any credible international response to today’s hunger crisis must rest.
Driven by climate change, conflict and inequality, food insecurity is spiking around the world. The tools to address it already exist. The challenge is to mobilize the political will to act. South Africa’s G20 presidency presents a unique opportunity to do just that.
Brazil offers a valuable model. Over the past two years, it has managed to lift 40 million people out of food insecurity, removing itself from the UN’s hunger map. To achieve this, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s administration reinstated policies scrapped by his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, bolstered school meal programs through procurement from smallholder and indigenous farmers, raised minimum wages and legally recognized the right to food.
None of these measures are experimental. They are tried, tested and proven solutions, and their success shows that eliminating hunger does not hinge on technological innovation but on political courage.
