Zero Hunger - The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2

The UN explains: "It is time to rethink how we grow, share and consume our food.

If done right, agriculture, forestry, and fisheries can provide nutritious food for all and generate decent incomes while supporting people-centered rural development and protecting the environment.

Right now, our soils, freshwater, oceans, forests, and biodiversity are being rapidly degraded. Climate change is putting even more pressure on the resources we depend on, increasing risks associated with disasters such as droughts and floods. Many rural women and men can no longer make ends meet on their land, forcing them to migrate to cities in search of opportunities.

A profound change of the global food and agriculture system is needed if we are to nourish today’s 815 million hungry and the additional 2 billion people expected by 2050.

The food and agriculture sector offers key solutions for development, and is central for hunger and poverty eradication."

The UN has defined 8 Targets and 13 Indicators for SDG 2. Targets specify the goals and Indicators represent the metrics by which the world aims to track whether these Targets are achieved. Below we quote the original text of all Targets and show the data on the agreed Indicators.

How is the world doing on this goal?

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Target 2.3: Double the productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers

UN definition: "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."

Production per labour unit - SDG Indicator 2.3.1

Definition: Indicator 2.3.1 is the "volume of production per labor unit by classes of farming/pastoral/forestry enterprise size".



This is reported here in the SDG Tracker as the economic value added per agricultural worker.

Goal: By 2030 "double the average productivity of food producers".

This would require a doubling in agricultural value-added per worker by 2030.

Income of small-scale food producers - SDG Indicator 2.3.2

Definition: Indicator 2.3.2 is the "average income of small-scale food producers, by sex and indigenous status".



Goal: By 2030 "double the average income of small-scale food producers".

Target 2.4: Sustainable food production and resilient agricultural practices

UN definition: "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."

Sustainable food production - SDG Indicator 2.4.1

Definition: Indicator 2.4.1 is the "proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture".

It is currently not clear or well-defined what constitutes productive and sustainable agricultural practice.

Goal: 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".

Target 2.5: Maintain the genetic diversity in food production

UN definition: "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."


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