What took Brazil out of the map of hunger is the theme of Paths of the reportfrom the TV Brazilthis Monday (15). The program shows how the country has made hunger behind and tells what needs to be done to avoid further retreat.
An announcement, expected years ago, has finally arrived in the last days of July 2025: Brazil is off the map of hunger – according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture (FAO) count. In practice, it means that less than 2.5% of Brazilians are currently undernourished.
Abandoning the map of hunger depends on a set of actions.
“The first is to have a political decision, that is, to put the theme in the context of national policy as a priority. The second aspect is the intersectoral articulation to solve the problem. A third important factor is financial availability. And it also has social participation. It is not possible to eradicate hunger without solidarity,” summarizes the representative of FAO, Equatorian Jorge Meza.
This was the second time the country has reached the UN goal. The first was in 2014. But why did hunger scared again? “Because they dismantled the programs,” says Minister of Social Development and Hunger Fighting, Wellington Dias.
“With this backwardness we had in the Bolsonaro, Temer-Bolsonaro government, we returned to dialogue with this political and governmental theme,” adds Nutrition Professor at the University of Brasilia, Anelise Rizzolo.
There are three degrees of food insecurity. Lightly, the family can guarantee amount and quality, but do not know until when. In moderate, the family has already reduced the amount or quality of food. In serious, food is lacking.
To understand how Brazil has left the map of hunger and what needs to be done to eradicate food insecurity, Paths of the report went to the interior of the country. In the Bahian semiarid, in some of the poorest cities in the state, our team saw initiatives that exclude pesticides and ultra -processed, and value local products.
In Umburanas, a group of women joined to produce healthy foods.
“We saw the need to join to add value in what we already did, which was family farming,” explains the president of the Women of Sertão Association, Daiana Santana. The association promotes collective gardens, pushes artesian wells and donates vegetables and vegetables to those who cannot produce.
370 kilometers away, in the municipality of Uauá, farmer Alcides Peixinho and his group Conciliam crop with caatinga recovery. “We have the friar crown and Mandacaru himself with recipes for food. Xique-xique too,” says Peixinho.
Organized, residents of the region have overcome poverty. This does not mean that this battle has been overcome. By the accounts of the Minister of Social Development himself, 3.6 million Brazilians still face severe food insecurity. “It’s our mission to take these people out of hunger,” says Wellington Dias.
Still according to the minister, another task as important as this is to prevent the people who came out of the map of hunger from frequenting it again.
The solutions implemented by the government, the good examples of civil society and the assessment of subject experts you can see in the episode “What took Brazil out of hunger map?”
The program goes to this Monday (15), at 23h, on TV Brasil.
