The G20 summit has officially begun in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — and the first thing on the agenda was world hunger.
“Hunger and poverty is not the result of scarcity or a natural phenomenon,” said Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, speaking at the opening of the summit on Monday morning. “Hunger is the biological expression of social evil. It is the product of political decisions that create the exclusion of a great part of humanity.”
With that, Lula da Silva officially launched the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty, a G20-born initiative that aims to connect countries with the policies, partnerships, and resources they need to end hunger.
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Elissa Miolene
Elissa Miolene reports on USAID and the U.S. government at Devex. She previously covered education at The San Jose Mercury News, and has written for outlets like The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Washingtonian magazine, among others. Before shifting to journalism, Elissa led communications for humanitarian agencies in the United States, East Africa, and South Asia.
