this extreme right era left its mark on Brazilian stomach. According to the Brazilian Food Sovereignty and Security Research Network (Penssan), 15.5% of residents from the country starving, nine points more than 2018, Jair Bolsonaro prevailed in the electionsabout yes 33 million people flogged by such a scourge. Fear of running out of a plate of food every day.
The same research shows that 60% of Braziliansabout 125 million people suffer from: food insecurity as a result The economic crisis aggravated by the epidemicand Withdrawal of state social policies. A 7.2% increase compared to what happened in 2020, and what surprises experts most is, 60% negative difference also regarding the year Bolsonaro began his rise to power.
The report had a strong impact because it refers to the problems that Brazil seems to have left behind. “The year 2022, food security decline In Brazil, with more people starving than recorded 30 years ago,” the newspaper ‘Folha’ Sao Paulo. According to Kiko Alfonso, director of the Civic Action organization, “public anger“In the face of hunger it is now much lower than it was in the 1990s. The cultural change brought about by the advent of the far right to government is not unrelated to a certain indifference to social inequalities.
In his statements to ‘Folha’, Alfonso attributed the increase in the number of starving people to a presidential administration that sees food security as a job. According to him, Brazil experienced a turning point in 2016, the year of the parliamentary coup. Dilma Rousseff When the Labor Party’s (PT) “public welfare policies and food security programs are destroyed”. These policies initiated during his government, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva They had removed Brazil from the UN Hunger Map.