Hunger-fighting project wins BRICS award for women entrepreneurs
Instituto Fome de Tudo won the Agriculture and Food Security category of the BRICS Women Business Alliance award at the 2026 Women-Led Development Summit in New Delhi.
Instituto Fome de Tudo won the Agriculture and Food Security category of the BRICS Women Business Alliance award at the 2026 Women-Led Development Summit in New Delhi.
BRICS members discussed ensuring adequate fertilizer supplies within the bloc as India’s subsidy burden rises, with the New Delhi Declaration emphasizing mitigation of abrupt supply crises.
India’s 2026 BRICS presidency centered on the New Delhi Declaration, continuity mechanisms, and practical economic cooperation, while cross-border payments and implementation challenges remain.
Strategic experts said the BRICS joint declaration adopted in New Delhi reflected India’s diplomatic success, including consensus among members and support for zero tolerance against terrorism.
The 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi highlighted the grouping’s role as a platform for global governance, economic diversification, and technology cooperation while managing internal divergences.
Strategic affairs experts praised the BRICS Summit’s New Delhi declaration as a diplomatic breakthrough for India and an endorsement of its stance on terrorism, while noting consensus was forged despite differences between Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
The New Delhi summit produced shared positions on trade, security and artificial intelligence while launching new cooperation mechanisms across technology, health, logistics, agriculture and innovation.
The article argues that BRICS is becoming a practical economic and diplomatic platform, with India and South Africa positioned to deepen cooperation in trade, finance, industrialisation, technology and shared development.
The BRICS Summit 2026 New Delhi Declaration outlined initiatives in agriculture, transport, education, health, space, trade, terrorism and UN Security Council reform, while omitting explicit references to Ukraine and a common BRICS currency.