SDG2 Zero Hunger

SDG 2: Zero Hunger End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

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Goal 2 seeks sustainable solutions to end hunger in all its forms by 2030 and to achieve food security. The aim is to ensure that everyone everywhere has enough good-quality food to lead a healthy life. Achieving this Goal will require better access to food and the widespread promotion of sustainable agriculture. This entails improving the productivity and incomes of small-scale farmers by promoting equal access to land, technology and markets, sustainable food production systems and resilient agricultural practices. It also requires increased investments through international cooperation to bolster the productive capacity of agriculture in developing countries.

Over the past 25 years the share of the world’s population suffering from hunger has fallen. The prevalence of undernourishment, where food intake does not meet continuous dietary energy requirements, has been almost halved globally, from 19 percent to 11 percent, but remains far higher in low-income countries than elsewhere. Efforts to end hunger by 2030 will not be successful if current trends continue. Improvements in food security and sustainable agriculture, especially in cereal yields, can help.


Improving nutrition

Like the Millennium Development Goals, the Sustainable Development Goals recognize that poverty is defined differently by national authorities.

The prevalence of child stunting has declined in all income groups since 1990 but remains close to 40 percent in low-income countries and above 30 percent in lower middle-income countries (figure 2b). Sustainable Development Goal 2 aims to reduce the number of children under age 5 who are stunted by 40 percent by 2025

Source: and World Bank_World View Report_2016