Removing Brazil from the Hunger Map will be a central agenda item for Lula, says Tereza Campello.
The Minister of Social Development and the Fight Against Hunger in Dilma's government says that the PT (Workers' Party) has been debating the re-creation of policies to combat hunger.
247 - Economist Tereza Campello, former Minister of Social Development and the Fight Against Hunger (Dilma Rousseff's government) and a leading expert on food insecurity, stated that former President Lula's central agenda, should he be elected for his third term, will be to remove Brazil from the UN Hunger Map – from which it had already exited, but ended up returning in recent years.
According to her, the PT has been debating the re-creation of Bolsa Família – a program that was discontinued during the Bolsonaro administration – and policies to combat hunger and food insecurity, although this has not yet been decided. interview for the Painel columnIn an article published in Folha de S.Paulo, she points out that the current situation is more difficult than when the program was created in 2003.
"When Lula said he was going to get us out of the hunger situation in 2003, many people said it was just propaganda. And we did it. It was possible to get off the Hunger Map. Everyone said it was demagoguery. We did it. And we're going to do it again. Now it's more difficult, the situation is more deteriorated, there are fewer resources in the State, but we have knowledge and institutional capacity. It's possible to get off the Hunger Map again. That will be the central agenda," he affirms.
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