Combating inequality requires changes to the tax system, says Gleisi.
Minister states that "thanks to Lula, Brazil has made great progress" after IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) reports a 23,5% reduction in severe food insecurity in 2024.
247 - The Minister-Chief of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations, Gleisi Hoffmann (PT), highlighted this Friday (10) Brazil's progress in combating hunger, after the release of new data from the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNADc) by IBGE, which show a significant reduction in severe food insecurity in the country.
“Thanks to Lula, we made great progress in the fight against hunger in Brazil. The number of people living in households with severe food insecurity fell by 23,5% in 2024, according to IBGE. In one year, two million Brazilians escaped hunger, going from 8,47 million in 2023 to 6,48 million in 2024,” Gleisi wrote on her X account (formerly Twitter).
According to the PNAD Contínua survey, Brazil registered a drop from 4,1% to 3,2% in the proportion of households experiencing severe food insecurity between 2023 and 2024—the lowest level in over a decade. The survey also indicates that 75,8% of Brazilian families now live in food security, representing 8,8 million more people with guaranteed food compared to the previous year.
"We cannot rest while there is a single Brazilian who is hungry."
Despite the positive results, Gleisi warned that the country still faces serious structural inequalities and that combating hunger requires profound changes in the economic and tax model.
“But this is still not a good result! We cannot rest while there is even one person going hungry in the country. Beyond public policies, we need to change the structure of the Brazilian tax system, which is responsible for the immense social inequality and high concentration of income in the country—a cursed scourge we carry,” he stated.
The Workers' Party member argued that the measures taken by Lula's government, such as the reinstatement of the Bolsa Família program, the Brazil Without Hunger Plan, the real increase in the minimum wage, and incentives for family farming, have been decisive in reversing the situation left by the previous administration.
Government celebrates progress and promises to intensify social policies.
On Friday, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva also celebrated the IBGE figures, describing overcoming hunger as "my obsession." According to Lula, 26,5 million people have left behind severe food insecurity since 2022, when 15,5% of Brazilian households faced severe food deprivation, according to estimates from the Rede Penssan network.
The president stated that he will continue to demand the full implementation of the Brazil Without Hunger Plan, which includes more than 80 inter-ministerial actions, and promised "not to rest while there is a single Brazilian going hungry."
