Airha Jean E.

Sapon HUNGER (SDG 2 ZERO HUNGER)

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It is known that hunger and undernourishment remain as the main barrier for the
development in many countries as a direct consequence of environmental degradation,
drought, loss of biodiversity, and a growth of urban cities. Food shortage caused by
conflict, social injustice, poverty, food waste, and climate change has resulted in a major
worldwide crisis known as hunger, which claims the lives of hundreds of millions of
people.
Deaths caused by scarcity in foods continue to rise each day, according to United
Nation (UN) 25,000 people, including more than 10,000 children, die from hunger and
related causes. Although many efforts have been devoted to reduce hunger, challenges
such as growing competitions for natural resources, emerging climate changes and
natural disasters, poverty, illiteracy, and diseases are posing threats to food security.
There is more than enough food produced in the world to feed everyone on the planet.
Yet as many as 783 million people still go hungry. According to estimation made by
WFP - from 78 of the countries where it works (and where data is available) – that more
than 333 million people are facing acute levels of food insecurity in 2023, and do not
know where their next meal is coming from. This constitutes a staggering rise of almost
200 million people compared to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels.
This year's Global Hunger Index (GHI) report unveils the devastating impacts of multiple
overlapping crises on the world's most vulnerable community’s despite of the Global
Hunger Index score of 18.3, considered moderate—less than one point below the 2015
GHI global score of 19.1. This year's report also shines a light on the future food needs
of the world’s current young population – the majority of whom live in low- and middle-
income countries in south Asia, east Asia and Africa. Currently 42% of the world’s
population is aged under-25, and are confronted with unsustainable and highly
vulnerable food systems. Hence, the global hunger rate shows that, though some
individual countries have made significant headway, little progress has been made in
reducing hunger on a global scale since 2015.
In order to mobilize efforts to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle
climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind. On 1 January 2016, the 17
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development — adopted by world leaders in September 2015 at an historic UN
Summit — officially came into force.
The global issue of hunger and food insecurity has shown an alarming increase since
2015, a trend exacerbated by a combination of factors including the pandemic, conflict,
climate change, and deepening inequalities. Shockingly, the world is back at hunger
levels not seen since 2005, and food prices remain higher in more countries than in the
period 2015–2019. Along with conflict, climate shocks, and rising cost of living, civil
insecurity and declining food production have all contributed to food scarcity and high
food prices. Thus, the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 that pertains in creating
a world free of hunger by the year 2030.
Eliminating hunger requires comprehensive efforts to ensure that every man, woman
and child enjoy their Right to Adequate Food; women are empowered; priority is given
to family farming; and food systems everywhere are sustainable and resilient.
Investments in agriculture, rural development, decent work, social protection and
equality of opportunity. It will make a major contribution to peace and stability and to the
reduction of poverty. It will contribute to better nutrition for all – especially women from
the beginning of pregnancy and children under the age of two. Hunger can be
eliminated in our lifetimes.
The second Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 2), Zero Hunger, seeks to
simultaneously address global environmental sustainability and food security
challenges. It has specific targets mainly environmental problems such as biodiversity,
agricultural productivity, and sustainable production systems together with the serious
consequences of climate change, the elimination of hunger and malnutrition, as well as
the control of micronutrient deficiencies in different age groups and the socioeconomic
factors involved that encompass farmers and commercial markets leading to a very in-
depth investigation of them to ensure that all people, especially children, have access to
sufficient and nutritious food throughout next few years.
SDG2 integrates four ambitious objectives – adequate food, no malnutrition, in
increased incomes for smallholders, greater sustainability – that will require careful
implementation to be conducted in synergy. We show that the compatibility of these
objectives will depend on the interplay of future food demand drivers and the
contribution of productivity gains across the food system. By tackling the global food
system, SDG 2 stands out as an inherently interdisciplinary goal. Indeed, a recent
article used the Zero Hunger goal to exemplify that individual SDGs are components of
a larger whole, and must be considered as an integrated unit.
As the SDG appears to guarantee, there would be no hunger by 2030, eradicate all
types of malnourishments and make sure that Everybody, particularly kids, has access
to enough and wholesome nourishment for the ensuing years.
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.
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