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Zero Hunger (Mixed media product, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as
biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health
and living conditions, especially but not only in developing
countries, intensify. Therefore, there is an increasing need to
search for integrated solutions to make development more
sustainable. The United Nations has acknowledged the problem and
approved the "2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development". On 1st
January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the
Agenda officially came into force. These goals cover the three
dimensions of sustainable development: economic growth, social
inclusion and environmental protection. The Encyclopedia of the UN
Sustainable Development Goals comprehensively addresses the SDGs in
an integrated way. It encompasses 17 volumes, each devoted to one
of the 17 SDGs. This volume addresses SDG 2, namely "End hunger,
achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote
sustainable agriculture" and contains the description of a range of
related terms, to allow for a better understanding and foster
knowledge. Our planet produces enough food to feed everyone.
Malnutrition and hunger are the result of inappropriate food
production processes, bad governance and injustice. SDG 2 seeks to
guarantee quality and nutritious food to ensure healthy life by
adopting a holistic approach that involves various actions
targeting different actors, technologies, policies and programs.
These initiatives have to face challenges coming from extensive
environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity and the
interrelated effects of climate change. Concretely, the defined
targets are: End hunger and ensure access by all people, in
particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including
infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round End
all forms of malnutrition, including achieving the internationally
agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of
age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls,
pregnant and lactating women and older persons Double the
agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food
producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers,
pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access
to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge,
financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition
and non-farm employment Ensure sustainable food production systems
and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase
productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that
strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme
weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that
progressively improve land and soil quality Maintain the genetic
diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated
animals and their related wild species, including through soundly
managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national,
regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair
and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of
genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as
internationally agreed Increase investment, including through
enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure,
agricultural research and extension services, technology
development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance
agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in
particular least developed countries Correct and prevent trade
restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets,
including through the parallel elimination of all forms of
agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with
equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha
Development Round Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning
of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate
timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in
order to help limit extreme food price volatility Editorial Board
Datu Buyung Agusdinata, Mohammad Sadegh Allahyari, Usama Awan,
Nerise Johnson, Paschal Arsein Mugabe, Vincent Onguso Oeba, Tony
Wall
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