Brazil is no longer classified as a country with severe food insecurity after the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reported that less than 2.5% of the population was undernourished on average during 2022-24. Crossing that threshold removes the country from the FAO’s so-called Hunger Map, which tracks nations where chronic undernourishment affects a significant share of residents. The South American nation had first left the Hunger Map in 2014 but re-entered it for the 2019-21 period. The latest improvement follows the expansion of social-protection programmes, support for family farming and strengthened school-meal schemes under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu congratulated Lula, describing him as a “commander” in the global fight against hunger and inviting Brazil to present its policies at the UN’s 80th-anniversary events in Rome later this year. Brazil’s progress comes against a backdrop of a modest worldwide decline in hunger. The FAO’s 2025 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report estimates that 8.2% of the global population was undernourished in 2024, down from 8.5% a year earlier, as gains in Asia and South America outweighed deteriorating conditions in Africa and West Asia. Even so, the report says 544.7 million people—72% of the population—in low-income countries could not afford a healthy diet last year, underlining the scale of the challenge that remains.