"In 2020, between 720 million and 811 million persons worldwide were suffering from hunger...Also in 2020, a staggering 2.4 billion people, or above 30 per cent of the world’s population, were moderately or severely food-insecure, lacking regular access to adequate food."
—United Nations (un.org)
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals—adopted by all United Nations member states—serve as a blueprint to protect the planet and improve the lives of all people, with no one left behind.
Sustainable Development Goal or SDG 2 aims to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
The United Nations established targets for achieving and measuring progress towards SDG 2 including:
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.
By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practicesthat 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.
Explore place-based stories, created with ArcGIS StoryMaps, that highlight the effects of poverty globally, agricultural trends, and data available to make informed policy decisions.
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Get hands-on experience with SDG 2 geospatial data through Esri learn materials. Then build your storytelling skills with ArcGIS StoryMaps tutorials, for beginners and beyond.
