Goal 2: End Hunger, Achieve Food Security and Improved Nutrition,
and Promote Sustainable Agriculture
Is food grown, shared and consumed in a proper way? If properly practised,
agriculture, forestry and fisheries should be able to provide sufficient nutritious
food for everybody and generate reasonable incomes, while encouraging peoplecentred rural expansion and protection of the environment.
Presently, soils, freshwater systems, forests, oceans, and biodiversity are being
quickly degraded. Climate change is affecting even further the resources we depend
on, producing further risks linked with weather extremes such as droughts and
floods. Many rural people can no longer earn a living on their land, compelling
them to move to cities looking for opportunities.
Thus, a deep change of the global food production and agriculture system is
required if we wish to nourish today’s 800 million hungry people and the 2 billion
more persons anticipated by 2050.
Core solutions for development are available in the food and agriculture sector,
which is a central hub for hunger and poverty eradication.
Goal 3: Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Well-being for All at All Ages
Safeguarding a healthy life style and encouraging the well-being of everybody at all
ages is necessary for sustainable development. Important strides have helped to
increase life expectancy and reduce some of the usual killers linked to infant and
Table 4.8 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Goal Infra Brief description
1
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
2
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture
3
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
4
Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning
5
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
6
Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
7
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all
8
Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment, and decent
work for all
9
Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization, and foster
innovation
10
Reduce inequality within and among countries
11
Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable
12
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
14
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources
15
Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss
16
Promote just, peaceful, and inclusive societies
17
Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
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and Promote Sustainable Agriculture
Is food grown, shared and consumed in a proper way? If properly practised,
agriculture, forestry and fisheries should be able to provide sufficient nutritious
food for everybody and generate reasonable incomes, while encouraging peoplecentred rural expansion and protection of the environment.
Presently, soils, freshwater systems, forests, oceans, and biodiversity are being
quickly degraded. Climate change is affecting even further the resources we depend
on, producing further risks linked with weather extremes such as droughts and
floods. Many rural people can no longer earn a living on their land, compelling
them to move to cities looking for opportunities.
Thus, a deep change of the global food production and agriculture system is
required if we wish to nourish today’s 800 million hungry people and the 2 billion
more persons anticipated by 2050.
Core solutions for development are available in the food and agriculture sector,
which is a central hub for hunger and poverty eradication.
Goal 3: Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Well-being for All at All Ages
Safeguarding a healthy life style and encouraging the well-being of everybody at all
ages is necessary for sustainable development. Important strides have helped to
increase life expectancy and reduce some of the usual killers linked to infant and
Table 4.8 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Goal Infra Brief description
1
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
2
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture
3
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
4
Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning
5
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
6
Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
7
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all
8
Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment, and decent
work for all
9
Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization, and foster
innovation
10
Reduce inequality within and among countries
11
Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable
12
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
14
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources
15
Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss
16
Promote just, peaceful, and inclusive societies
17
Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
126
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