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Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2 or Global Goal 2) aims to achieve "zero hunger". It is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations in 2015. The official wording is: "End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture".
A United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization study conducted in 2009 [48] said that food production would have to increase by 70% over the next 40 years, and food production in the developing world would need to double [49] to feed a projected population increase from 7.8 billion to 9.1 billion in 2050.
The birth rate fell from 6.6 births per women before 1970 to 2.2 births per women in 1980.The rapid fertility decline in China was caused by government policy: in particular the "later, longer, fewer" policy of the early 1970s and in the late 1970s the one-child policy was also enacted which highly influence China demographic transition. [43]
Large groups of women and children are scavenging for food among mounds of trash in parts of the Gaza Strip, a U.N. official said on Friday following a visit to the Palestinian enclave. Ajith ...
The term "demographic trap" is used by some demographers to describe a situation where stage 2 persists because "falling living standards reinforce the prevailing high fertility, which in turn reinforces the decline in living standards." [2] This results in more poverty, where people rely on more children to provide them with economic security ...
Climate change has direct and indirect negative impacts on food security and hunger through changes in food production and availability, access, quality, utilization, and stability of food systems. In addition, climate change can contribute to conflict, especially in vulnerable and food-insecure regions, creating a double vulnerability for ...
Undernutrition in children, occurs when children do not consume enough calories, protein, or micronutrients to maintain good health. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is common globally and may result in both short and long term irreversible adverse health outcomes.
It is important to note that currently researchers assume an income elasticity of food being less than 1.0 (but more than 0.0), which further implies that the share of household expenditure on food decreases with rising income. [2] [8] Therefore Engel's law is a commonly accepted economic relationship and often referred to in the introductory ...