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The letter expresses concern that, without urgent action, we will not achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, especially the global goals to end poverty and hunger, with an estimated 582 million people hungry at the 2030 deadline.
“We risk falling further behind as a result of unpredictable and intensifying conflict, climate change, and economic shocks,” reads the letter, which also commends the Brazilian Presidency of the G20 for focusing attention on the crisis of hunger.
The letter calls on world leaders to strengthen social protection systems, build resilience to food crises, and transform food systems to deliver healthy diets equitably and sustainably.
“Now is the time to act to prevent unnecessary suffering and invest in improving food security and nutrition, boosting rural livelihoods, ensuring equity for smallholder food producers, and workers across agrifood value chains, strengthening social protection systems, building resilience to food crises, and transforming food systems to deliver healthy diets equitably and sustainably,” the letter reads. “We have a short window to turn things around.”
The letter notes that civil society organizations stand ready to engage communities on the frontlines of climate change and food crises, share their expertise, and hold all stakeholders, including themselves, accountable.
The letter concludes with a call on all of the world’s leaders to make a statement of commitment to the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty. It also calls on national governments to increase funding for food security, nutrition, and social protection in national budgets alongside sufficient funding for climate adaptation, and “to make new policy and funding commitments at the 2025 Paris Nutrition for Growth Summit and other global pledging moments.”
