End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
Around three million children die every year because of malnutrition. This is an unnecessary cause of death and one that can be prevented. As Amartya Sen said: "Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat."
One of my favourite actors, Chiwetel Ejiofor, is in support of goal 2.
Here are the targets set out for goal 2:
- End hunger and ensure access by all people to safe and nutritious food all year round
- End all forms of malnutrition and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women, and older persons
- Double the agricultural productivity and the incomes of small farmers, respecting the environment and the biodiversity of each region
- Prevent problems such as drought, floods and other disasters
- Protect the variety of species of seeds, crops and farm animals and fairly distribute the benefits of these resources
- Increase investment in rural infrastructure, agricultural research, technology development, and plant and livestock gene banks to improve agricultural productive capacity in developing countries
- Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets
- Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives to help limit extreme food price volatility
Over the next fifteen years the United Nations have set the goal that nobody, anywhere in the world will go hungry, and nobody will wake up asking if there will be food today.
Is this the goal you have chosen to support? Have you taken your selfie or done anything else to promote your choice?
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