Sustainable Development Goal 2

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Sustainable Development Goal 2 is the United Nations’ global objective to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture worldwide.

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Statements (61)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Sustainable Development Goal
United Nations goal
global development agenda item
addressesIssue agricultural sustainability
climate resilience in agriculture
food insecurity
food price volatility
genetic diversity of crops and livestock
hunger
malnutrition
adoptedBy United Nations General Assembly
adoptionDate 2015-09-25
alsoKnownAs SDG 2
Zero Hunger
appliesTo all UN Member States
focusesOnPopulationGroup Indigenous peoples
children under 5 years of age
family farmers
fishers
pastoralists
people in vulnerable situations
poor people
small-scale food producers
women farmers
goalNumber 2
hasIconColor yellow
hasIconSymbol bowl with spoon
hasMainTheme food security
hunger eradication
nutrition
sustainable agriculture
hasOverallObjective achieve food security
end hunger
improve nutrition
promote sustainable agriculture
hasTarget 2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.a
2.b
2.c
monitoredBy Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
United Nations Statistics Division
numberOfIndicators 14
numberOfTargets 8
partOf 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development Goals
relatedTo Millennium Development Goals
United Nations
successorOf Millennium Development Goal 1C
target2.1Description 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
target2.2Description 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
target2.3Description By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, Indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers
target2.4Description By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, help maintain ecosystems, strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters, and progressively improve land and soil quality
target2.5Description 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
target2.aDescription 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
target2.bDescription 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
target2.cDescription 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
targetYear 2030


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