Hunger - people are starving
- Lay Koon Ng
- Nov 17, 2020
- 3 min read
Updated: Nov 20, 2020
Research for ID Context Part II
SDGs - Goal 2: Zero Hunger
End Hunger, Achieve food security, Improved nutrition, Promote sustainable agriculture
1 out of 9 persons in the world goes to be hungry.
Hunger kills more people than AIDS, Malaria, and Tb combined.
66 million primary school children attend class hungry.
Poor nutrition causes 45% of child deaths under 5 years old.
HOW WE CAN START
Adopt a healthy and balanced diet
Buy fruits and vegetables that aren't inadequate due to their imperfect state.
Plan very well your shopping before your products expired or ordering food in restaurants.
Organize and collaborate in food collections and give a donation to schools and education projects that offer students full daily meals.
WHAT CAN THE WORLD DO?
Increase investment in farming in developing countries.
Double agricultural productivity and incomes of small farmers.
Correct and prevent trade restrictions that distort access to markets.
Take action to minimize food prices for poor people.
WHAT CAUSE PEOPLE SUFFER FOR HUNGER
Waste Overbuying
War - Loss Land
Natural Disaster - Droughts
Locust Crisis
Disease - Covid 19, Ebola Virus
Target to Achieve
UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO SAFE AND NUTRITIOUS FOOD
By 2030, 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
By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, 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 PRODUCTIVITY AND INCOMES OF SMALL-SCALE FOOD PRODUCERS
By 2030, 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.
SUSTAINABLE FOOD PRODUCTION AND RESILIENT AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES
By 2030, 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 IN FOOD PRODUCTION
By 2020, 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.
INVEST IN RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE, AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, TECHNOLOGY & GENE BANKS
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.
PREVENT AGRICULTURAL TRADE RESTRICTIONS, MARKET DISTORTIONS & EXPORT SUBSIDIES
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.
ENSURE STABLE FOOD COMMODITY MARKETS AND TIMELY ACCESS TO INFORMATION
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.
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