Brasília – The Brazilian income transfer programs, mainly the Family Purse and the Brazil Free from Poverty program, will be detailed on Friday (24), in Rome, Italy. Representatives of the countries that are members of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will meet at the seminar denominated Brazilian Technical Cooperation: Agriculture, Food Safety and Social Policies.
The Brazilian programs are already a basis for reference at the World Bank (IBRD), which organizes an international plan for the next decade. The bank’s finality is to renew strategies for operation in the areas of social protection and labour.
The recently released Brazil Free from Poverty plan, under the responsibility of the Ministry of Social Development and Hunger Alleviation (MDS), also called the attention of foreign authorities. Brazil is the only Latin American country whose social projects are used as a reference for the execution of a global plan.
Apart from that, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac) should work in partnership with the MDS, the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea) and the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in analysis of the extreme poverty indices elaborated by the government. The idea is to provide incentives to economic cooperation between the 48 member countries.
In the global effort for hunger alleviation, Brazil today authorized the donation of public food stocks to the Portuguese speaking countries and to another 15 nations: Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, Cuba, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Sudan, Ethiopia, the Central African Republic, the Congo, Somalia, Nigeria and North Korea.
The countries to receive the foods were hit by natural catastrophes. The Brazilian donation involves 100,000 tonnes of maize, 500,000 tonnes of rice, 100,000 tonnes of beans, 10,000 tonnes of powdered milk and one tonne of vegetable seeds.
*Translated by Mark Ament
