Today, 795 million people go to bed hungry every night. It is expected to add 2 billion more people to this number by 2050. In order for these people to be supplied with food and agriculture system must radically change.
Why it matters?
Extreme hunger and malnutrition constitute an obstacle to the achievement of sustainable development goals and turn into a trap that people cannot easily get out of. Hunger and malnutrition mean that people can produce less, get sick more easily, and therefore earn less income, unable to increase their livelihoods. About 800 million people around the world go to bed hungry at night, mostly in developing countries.
So what is our plan?
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.
Eliminate all forms of malnutrition by 2030 (by 2025, including achieving agreed international targets on growth barriers to under-5s) and meet the nutritional needs of young girls, pregnant women, nursing mothers and older people to be dealt with
By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and the incomes of
small-scale food producers, particularly 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
By 2030, secure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient farming practices that increase production and productivity, help sustain ecosystems, strengthen the capacity to adapt to climate change, extreme weather, drought, floods and other disasters, and continually improve soil quality
By 2030, maintaining the genetic diversity of seeds, crops, livestock and domesticated animals and their wild species through effectively managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels and, as internationally agreed, on genetic resources and related promoting access to and fair and equitable distribution of gains from the use of traditional knowledge
Increasing investment in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and animal gene banks, through enhanced international cooperation to increase agricultural production capacity in developing countries, especially least developed countries.
Correction and prevention of trade restrictions and disruptions in world agricultural markets, in line with the Doha Development Round, through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent financial burdens
Taking measures to ensure the efficient functioning of markets for
food raw materials and derivatives, and facilitating timely access to market information, including information on food reserves, to help limit excessive volatility in food prices
Indicator for food price anomalies
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.
