MOSCOW, February 4. /TASS/. Russia is one of the world's largest food suppliers and a pioneer in ensuring food security, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergey Naryshkin, who also chairs the Russian Historical Society, said.
"Having overcome many obstacles on its historical path, Russia has managed not only to conquer hunger, but also to become one of the largest food suppliers in the world. Suffice it to say that our country has supplied a record 72 million tons of grain exports according to the results of 2024. The prominent role of our country in ensuring global food security blesses us with a unique responsibility to ensure humanitarian supplies to the most remote parts of the world," he said at a roundtable on the history of the fight against hunger and poverty in the world.
Joint efforts
Naryshkin added that last year, for example, Russia provided 200,000 tons of grain free of charge to the six poorest countries in Africa, which are overcoming the severe consequences of their colonial past. "I believe that only united will humanity be able to finally defeat hunger," he emphasized.
"Important steps in this area are Russia's initiative to create a BRICS grain exchange and Brazil’s project ‘Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty’. And there is also a proposal by a number of world majority countries, for many of whom this fight against food shortage is the top thing on the agenda," Naryshkin emphasized.