*Neoliberal structural adjustment programs imposed by the World Bank in the 1960s had dramatic results
*Large number of transnational corporations dominate agribusiness markets
*1 in 10 deaths in the country in 2019 resulted from consumption of ultra-processed foods
*Landless Movement approaches 20 years of cooperation with Venezuelan communes
*Laboratory has been set up to test Chinese machines and equipment
*Plan against hunger and poverty proposed income distribution programs
*Large number of transnational corporations dominate agribusiness markets
*1 in 10 deaths in the country in 2019 resulted from consumption of ultra-processed foods
*Landless Movement approaches 20 years of cooperation with Venezuelan communes
*Laboratory has been set up to test Chinese machines and equipment
*Plan against hunger and poverty proposed income distribution programs
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00:00In Brazil, the launch of the Global Plan Against Hunger and Poverty during the G20 Summit reopens
00:05the debate between South and North on agricultural development models.
00:09Let's see more details in the following report.
00:16During the G20 Summit, President Lula da Silva gave concrete expression
00:20to Pope Francisco's idea by launching the Global Plan to Combat Hunger and Poverty,
00:25a platform that was endorsed by 82 countries plus the European Union and the African Union.
00:34We cannot talk about any public policy if we do not fight hunger,
00:37if we do not fight social inequality.
00:46But the way out for that was not very clear because the fund will be formed with money
00:50from the World Bank. Most of the fund will be for loans, and we already know how that works.
00:56The neoliberal structural adjustment programs imposed by the World Bank in the 1960s
01:04encouraged the production of monoculture export crops. In the 1980s and 1990s,
01:10together with the International Monetary Fund, they pressured the countries of the Global South
01:14to abandon food production and focus on export crops such as coffee, tea, cocoa,
01:20and the purchase of basic foodstuffs on the world market. The result was dramatic.
01:26Today, a handful of transnational corporations dominate highly financialized agri-food markets.
01:32In 2023, some 2,330 million people around the world were moderately or severely food insecure.
01:42A recent report by the Fiocruz Health Institute states that one in 10 deaths in Brazil
01:47in 2019 were the result of the consumption of ultra-processed foods.
01:52Among the voices of world leaders at the G20, Latin American peasant movements adhere to two
01:58positions – Colombian President Gustavo Petro's and Mexican President Claudia Sainz-Ramos.
02:07It is the peasantry and the small farmer of each country that has the vocation to work the land
02:12and fulfill its social function, which is the number one basis for feeding their own people
02:17and the world. We call this agrarian reform.
02:27The statement that freedom is only in the market is a falsehood.
02:31What freedom? The freedom to starve to death? That is not freedom, it is oblivion, it is dehumanization.
02:42In the opposite direction to the prescriptions of neoliberal organizations,
02:46the landless movement is approaching 20 years of cooperation with Venezuelan
02:51communes for the exchange of agroecological production practices.
02:57The landless movement is here today in Venezuela, as it is in Zambia, as it is in Haiti or in Cuba.
03:02We are talking about peoples who are seeking, despite all the difficulties,
03:07despite all the siege that international organizations are carrying out,
03:11their paths, their search to transform the concrete reality of the people.
03:17This week during a debate in Brasilia, the Brazil-China Center for Research,
03:23Development and Promotion of Mechanization Technology for Family Farming launched this
03:28week a laboratory and will test Chinese machines and equipment that will operate
03:32in landless movement settlements. China has a wonderful experience on how it fought poverty
03:40and social inequality. At the root is the agrarian reform they carried out between 1945 and 1952,
03:47when they distributed all the land.
03:53The plan against hunger and poverty proposed to reach 500 million people with income distribution
03:59programs by 2030 and to expand school meals to 150 million children. In this context,
04:05the debate on land concentration and the role of agroecology is reopening.