End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.

Goal 2 aims to find long-term solutions to end hunger in all of its forms and achieve food security by 2030. The goal is to ensuring that everyone in the world has access to enough high-quality food to live a healthy lifestyle. To achieve this goal, more people will need to have access to food, and sustainable agriculture will need to be widely promoted.

Extreme hunger and malnutrition continue to be an obstacle to long-term development and a trap from which people are unable to easily escape. Hunger and malnutrition result in people who are less productive, more prone to disease, and so unable to earn more and improve their lives.

TARGETS:

The pandemic, in addition to conflict, climate shocks, and the locust catastrophe, offers a new challenge to food systems. Food scarcity and high food prices have been exacerbated by civil unrest and diminishing food output. Agriculture investment is crucial for decreasing hunger and poverty, enhancing food security, creating jobs, and increasing disaster and shock resistance.

2.1 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.

2.2 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.

2.3 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.

2.4 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.

2.5 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.

2.A 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.

2.B 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, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round.

2.C 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.