Socio-Economic Context
Brazil is a lower‑middle to upper‑middle‑income emerging economy and key player in global SSTC. It has a diversified agricultural base, a strong public social protection system, and a globally renowned national home-grown school feeding programme (notably PNAE), which serve as pillars for domestic and international food‑security efforts. With long‑standing democratic institutions, Brazil channels its developmental experience outward through South-South Cooperation leveraging a wide variety of modalities, including policy dialogues, training, study visits, etc., particularly in school feeding linked to local production and smallholder integration.
SSTC Engagement
For decades, Brazil has been a champion of SSTC globally. Brazil collaborates with several UN agencies to provide technical and financial assistance to countries across the Global South. Food security and nutrition are top priorities within Brazil’s South-South Cooperation agenda, making its partnership with the UN Rome-based agencies particularly strategic.
Since its launch in 2011 under a partnership between WFP and the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC), Brazil’s WFP Centre of Excellence against Hunger has become a global hub for SSTC in food and nutrition security. It aligns directly with Brazil’s international cooperation priorities—particularly school feeding and local procurement from family farmers—while supporting partner countries in designing context‑adapted policies to strengthen resilient and inclusive food systems. The Centre offers both in‑person and virtual SSTC modalities, displaying strong institutional capacity and demand from governments across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
In 2024, under its G20 Presidency, Brazil launched the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty, which a government-led multilateral platform to support countries of the Global South to strengthen and scale up their food security and nutrition policies through cross-country learning. The Global Alliance further elevates Brazil’s political commitment to supporting countries in addressing technical and financial gaps related to SDG 1 (No Poverty) and SDG 2 (Zero Hunger).
Technical Expertise & Capacities
Social Protection
Brazil’s PNAE is widely regarded as one of the most comprehensive home-grown school feeding programmes globally, anchored in law and institutional coordination. It links nutritious meals to smallholder farmers’ production and integrates monitoring systems and civil society oversight. This model has been adapted in over 30 countries through study visits and policy support.
Supply Chain
Through public procurement mechanisms managed by institutions such as the National Supply Company (CONAB) and the Ministry of Social Development (MDS) Brazil creates inclusive institutional markets for family farmers. The Centre helps partner countries build similar infrastructure and conducive policy frameworks to promote food security while supporting rural livelihoods.
Climate Resilience
Fostering climate‑resilient rural systems, the Centre promotes the knowledge exchange on agroecological practices—community seed banks, rainwater harvesting, intercropping—as well as nutrition education and food security programming drawing on Brazil’s best practices in these areas.
Urban Resilience
The Centre facilitates knowledge exchange among cities in Brazil and partner countries (e.g. Beira in Mozambique), focusing on urban flooding, nature-based solutions and resilience governance.
Institutions Involved
- Brazilian Cooperation Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (ABC/MRE)
- National Fund for Educational Development (FNDE)
- National Supply Company (CONAB)
- Ministry of Agrarian Development (MDA)
- Ministry of Social Development (MDS)
- Ministry of Health (MS)
- WFP Centre of Excellence against Hunger (BrasĂlia)
SSTC Modalities
- Study visits
- Virtual trainings
- In-person trainings
- Knowledge product development
- Staff secondment
- In-field visits
- Events organization (e.g., workshops, conferences, technical roundtables)
- Articulation of SSTC modalities (e.g., coordination among partners, matchmaking between countries, facilitation of trilateral arrangements)
SSTC examples & case studies
Brazil's High-Level Study Visit & Farmer Access Project
2023-2024
Links to external platforms or government portals
- Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty
- UNOSSC South-South Galaxy (search Brazil to find all related solutions): https://southsouth-galaxy.org/solutions/
- National Education Development Fund or Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento da Educação (FNDE)
- Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC)
- Please see here, videos of WFP Brazil CoE’s exchanges