This Week’s G20 Summit and the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty

The G20 Summit takes place later this week in Brazil. The G20 is made up of the 20 most powerful countries in the world. President Lula of Brazil is this year’s G20 chair, and he has focused this year’s Summit on strategies to get the world’s progress against hunger and poverty going again.

They will launch the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty, a new international organization designed to strengthen commitment to ending hunger. It will also mobilize international support for country-designed initiatives to scale up successful, evidence-based strategies that work. I’m glad that the United States will be a founding member of the Alliance, and that President Biden will be attending the G20 Summit.

Faith leaders from around the world gathered in Brasilia in August for the annual meeting of the G20 Interfaith Forum. I was invited to speak. All the world’s major faith traditions teach us that helping people in need is spiritually important. At the August forum, faith leaders from around the world celebrated the impending launch of the Global Alliance Against Hunger and poverty. 

At a time of interlocking crises, this week’s G20 focus on hunger and poverty is a step in the right direction.

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Laureate's Statement in Forbes

The World Food Prize Laureates released a statement last Thursday, noting that the scandal of increasing hunger hasn't been a topic of conversation during the U.S. election. The story was picked up by Forbes magazine, which can be read here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daphneewingchow/2024/11/04/hunger-a-missed-opportunity-in-the-2024-us-election-agenda/

WFP Laureates Statement on U.S. Elections

World Food Prize Laureates urge U.S. voters to give some thought to hungry people in our country and around the world as they consider competing candidates: https://www.worldfoodprize.org/index.cfm/87428/49164/laureate_statement__world_hunger_the_big_issue_being_overlooked_in_the_us_elections