Brazilian Ministry of Social Development and Instituto Fome Zero Discuss Actions to Adapt Social Protection to Climate Change

Meeting focused on adaptive social protection models to ensure effective preparedness for climate emergencies, with an emphasis on the most vulnerable populations Agência Gov, via MDS | 30/05/2025 The Minister…

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When Hunger Became an Ideological Weapon

More cruel than hunger itself is the deliberate decision to ignore it — or worse, to use it as a political tool By José Graziano da Silva | 22/05/2025 Today’s…

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Why Is the American Diet So Deadly?

A scientist tried to discredit the theory that ultra-processed foods are killing us. Instead, he overturned his own understanding of obesity By Dhruv Khullar in The New Yorker | 06/01/2025…

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Food scientists are investigating a possible cause of the obesity epidemic which wasn’t named until the twenty-first century: ultra-processed foods. Illustration by Allan Sanders

At COP30 in Brazil, Lula can lead the world in transforming food

Despite global cuts to foreign aid, bold action on food and climate is possible By Anna Lappé and Elisabetta Recine in Context | 30/04/2025 In a historic move, Brazil’s President…

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Woman carries a box of fruit and vegetables in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 30, 2022. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

From crisis to autonomy: why food sovereignty is more urgent than ever

Food sovereignty has become an urgent necessity in the face of successive health, climate, geopolitical, and economic crises. By José Graziano da Silva and Julio Berdegué in Correio Braziliense |…

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O conceito de soberania alimentar ganha força como resposta política, prática e ética como alternativa ao de segurança alimentar [Foto: Ed Alves/CB/ DA.Press]

Pope Francis and the legacy against hunger and poverty

By José Graziano da Silva, Former Director-General of FAO | 22/04/2025 The passing of Pope Francis marks the end of a leadership that profoundly influenced international debates on social justice,…

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José Graziano entrega ao Papa Francisco um exemplar do livro "Hambre Cero", publicado pela FAO

Governance of Food Systems: a pathway to global Zero Hunger

By José Graziano da Silva, Director-General of the Instituto Fome Zero | 05/03/2025 Global hunger has largely been attributed to conflicts, climate change, and economic crises. In recent years, the…

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In February, the Global Alliance held the first meeting of its Council of Champions, alongside the 48th session of IFAD's governing council in Rome.

The economic costs of Trump’s assault on the global order

America is trying to undo the very system of open trade that it created By Martim Wolf in the Financial Times | 05/03/2025 On March 3, Donald Trump made two…

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Is obesity a disease?

It wasn’t. But it is now. The Economist | 15/01/2025 For years there has been a push to recognise obesity as a disease in its own right, and therefore something…

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Obese woman, coloured magnetic resonance (MRI) scan [Photograph: Science Photo Library]