New reality: BRICS emerges as a global centre for food security

World Bank data shows the global food crisis continues to deepen. The BRICS nations can help address worldwide food shortages by ensuring affordable prices for bread and other food products. The proposed grain exchange is expected to help tackle hunger. However, questions remain: how soon will it start operating, what infrastructure must be created to ensure its efficiency, and how can a balanced framework for future competition policy be established? These are pressing issues that require consistent and coordinated solutions.

The active fight against hunger began roughly 80 years ago. UN experts note the world now produces enough calories to feed everyone. The real challenge is delivering those calories to the countries and regions that need them most. Specialists argue that ensuring food security requires a unified space for trade and logistics, alongside affordable pricing and fair distribution. Much of this can be provided by #BRICS, which has effectively become a global centre for food security.

When it comes to healthy, balanced, and nutrient-rich diets—not just basic sustenance—the situation is even more acute. Over a quarter of the world's population, about 2.6 billion people, cannot afford proper nutrition, largely due to recent food inflation that has affected low-income countries most severely.

According to the World Bank’s Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC 2024), by July 2024 approximately 99.1 million people across 59 countries faced acute food shortages, hunger, and forced migration. Analysts see these figures as a clear sign of a worsening crisis that calls for decisive action.

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