The United Nation’s 17 new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets were established in 2015 (ICSU & ISSC, 2015). These are building on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), that aimed to improved development. Although these goals had a significant impact in development in some areas, they failed to address some of the most disadvantaged areas, especially some landlocked countries in Africa as well as small island developing countries. The new SDGs are aimed at solving some of the issues that the MDGs did not resolve, with a special focus on being more inclusive and bringing together the social and natural sciences. The SDGs were designed to address an integrated and universal approach to combat poverty through creating a more …show more content…
This essay will discuss the second MDG, which aims to; end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture by 2030 (United Nations, 2016). Although there are structures in place to ensure the progress of this goal, there are geographical barriers that institutions and governments must overcome in order to achieve this goal. Firstly, inequality, which is characterised by the great divide between the rich and poor. Secondly, unsustainable consumption patterns which is contributing to the issue of global food security. Thirdly, the institutional structures that are impeding the ability for people to have access to and produce sustainable food practices. Although these are barriers that must be overcome to achieve this SDG, there are strategies and programs in place that promote opportunities for achieving this …show more content…
They aim to do this by creating more jobs with efficient training and preserving the environment by using less water, land, energy and pesticides. By 2030, global agricultural production systems should shift from industrial to sustainable through replacing herbicides and pesticides with organic alternatives. Food should be sold locally before it is exported if the community is experiencing hunger or malnutrition. They aim to increase the food supply chain efficiency by 20% which will reduce food waste. Increase water efficiency used in agriculture by 20% which will provide more nutrition with less water. As well as using irrigation technology that only waters areas that need to be irrigated, which will preserve more water. In order to achieve the above points, there are strategies that can be implemented to ensure this goal is reached. More assistance is needed from more developed countries, focusing on agricultural methods. Increasing the funds that small farm holders receive which can help to implement more efficient farming practices and in turn, promote local production. Support sustainable agriculture through policies and government legislation (United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development ,
The second module focuses on the importance of obtaining food justice in order to understand how changes need to be made within the global food system. In order to have food justice present, individuals need to focus on concepts such as food security and food sovereignty to examine the deeper problems embedded within our society. For instance, this module has presented how the terminology of words can create certain limitations on trying to achieve change. In both Pinstrup (2009) and Maxwell’s (1996) articles they explore the term food security and the different ways this term can be viewed. Maxwell (1996) explores three different shifts in thinking about food security and the problems that come about with this thinking. I believe it is important
By implementing new farming techniques provided with the new technological advances in machines we can see abundant harvest in even the poorest third world countries. For example, the Green Revolution has already showed admirable progress in the northern part of India ever since it took start in 1950. By 1997, northern India increased its grain production by 37 percent. This has proven that traditional farming methods are being rendered obsolete. And because by the year 2000, there will be half the land per person in developing countries as there was in 1970, we need to apply ultra-efficient methods to sustain the growing need. Not only does the Green Revolution enhances food output, it also preserves the environment.
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There are many problems confronting our global food system. One of them is that the food is not distributed fairly or evenly in the world. According “The Last Bite Is The World’s Food System Collapsing?” by Bee Wilson, “we are producing more food—more grain, more meat, more fruits and vegetables—than ever before, more cheaply than ever before” (Wilson, 2008). Here we are, producing more and more affordable food. However, the World Bank recently announced that thirty-three countries are still famine and hungers as the food price are climbing. Wilson stated, “despite the current food crisis, last year’s worldwide grain harvest was colossal, five per cent above the previous year’s” (Wilson, 2008). This statement support that the food is not distributed evenly. The food production actually increased but people are still in hunger and malnutrition. If the food were evenly distributed, this famine problem would’ve been not a problem. Wilson added, “the food economy has created a system in w...
This is a task not taken lightly by Marion Guillou the chief executive of France's National Institute for Agricultural Research. In an interview that she had with Declan Butler for nature publishing group, she mentions the food crisis of 2008 were protest of millions of people across the world over diminishing food supplies and high prices took place, and how we cannot allow for our great world society to allow this to happen. She outlines paths that are being taken today that don’t seem to be the way forward for us in this world. One example of a technique that it seems won’t be able to feed the world is G.M.O.s, as she explains it simply does not have the capability to increase crop yields enough, and that they are still searching for solutions to feeding the world to stop starvation. The U.N. has urged for an increase of agriculture production of around sixty percent from the levels of 2005 in the year
The goals to eradicate extreme poverty/hunger, provide universal primary education, promote gender equality, decrease child mortality and improve maternal health, fight HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases and to ensure environmental sustainability were not fully met but did achieve significant success. The MDG’s acted as an impetus for the UN to set larger and more ambitious goals called the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The focuses of the new goals are broader addressing three dimensions of sustainable development - economic, social and environmental (From MDGs to SDGs, WHO launches new report, 2015). The development and execution of these goals represent global health diplomacy in action.
Mustafa and associates cover a multitude of perspectives on urban/local food systems and hunger/income insecurities that highly impact the present and future of global wellbeing, as approximately one third of the population of the world lives in cities of one million or more people. The book and the papers inside address how current food practices are not sustainable long term, because of skyrocketing gas prices and an increase in the destruction of natural habitats that balance our delicate ecosystem. First the book covers Southern countries, secondly sub-Saharan African nations, and finally North American, all pertaining to food systems and food security. Another portion of this book discusses economic follies and how they impact food security
In one such effort, the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) recently released seventeen sustainable development goals (SDGs). These goals aim to solve a variety of issues facing today’s people, spanning from safe energy access to reduced inequalities
With the increases in the global population and the increase need to feed this population, comes the great debate in how governments of the developed and developing world must tackle this important issue. In his article, The Politics of Hunger: How Illusion and Greed Fan the Food Crisis, Paul Collier examines the root causes of the food crisis and three ways (the slaying of giants) governments can easily come in finding a solution in the near-term, middle-term and long-term. The root causes, as outlined by Mr. Collier, are the increasing demand for food and increases in food prices. First, Collier states, “the first giant that must be slain is the middle to upper-class love affair with peasant agriculture.” In other words, increasing commercial agriculture and farming. Second, Collier states that the lifting of the genetically modified foods (GM crops) ban by Europe and Africa will allow a decrease in global food prices. Lastly, he states the United States must lift the subsidies on corn produced for biofuel and find an alternate biofuel source (like Brazilian sugar cane), thus decreasing the price on corn produced for food while increasing overall grain production.
The Sustainable Development Goals are a set of global agendas set by the United Nations to be achieved by the year 2030. They are a continuation of the Millennium Development Goals, set-up through the Millennium Deceleration in 2000 to address the needs of the world poor (Cite UN). The Millennium Development goals included a set of eight simply stated goals with 21 targets and 48 indicators to measure progress (Murray, 2015). Amongst them- reducing child mortality (MDG 4), improving maternal health (MDG 5) and combating HIV-AIDS, malaria and other diseases (MDG 6)- were specifically aimed at improving health. This approach provided a clear and focused direction for many of the stakeholders, to work on achieving these goals. The SDGs are longer
National mission for sustainable agriculture in India is one of the eight missions under the NAPCC (National action plan for climate change) to address the issues related to ‘Sustainable agriculture’ in the context of risk associated with climate change by devising appropriate adaptation and mitigation strategies for ensuring food security, access to food resources and in turn enhancing the livelihood opportunities and contributing in the economic stability of the country.
One of the most complex issues in the world today concerns human population. The number of people living off the earth’s resources and stressing its ecosystem has doubled in just forty years. In 1960 there were 3 billion of us; today there are 6 billion. We have no idea what maximum number of people the earth will support. Therefore, the very first question that comes into people’s mind is that are there enough food for all of us in the future? There is no answer for that. Food shortage has become a serious problem among many countries around the world. There are many different reasons why people are starving all over the world. The lack of economic justice and water shortages are just merely two examples out of them all.
In September of 2000, 189 representatives from the United Nations met to discuss important issues. These leaders collectively decided that human development was the key. They decided that by 2015 these goals would be achieved, not just for developing countries, but also for all countries that help the United Nations. The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) consisted of eight milestones to ensure the growth and development of these developing nations .
There are those that believe our planet has reached its maximum capacity to sustain humanity and we need to reduce our population to rectify it. It is also said that our planet is well capable of providing both the nutrition and caloric needs for humanity, both now and into the future as well. Regardless of where one’s opinion of the facts fall between these two arguments, global food security is not where it should be. Uneven development could be argued to be a cause of this. But it is not the only issue affecting the planet.
The United Nations recently published a list of goals they hope to accomplish by 2030 called the Sustainable Development Goals. These goals will replace the Millennium Development Goals, which were set in 2000, when they expire at the end of 2015. Some of these goals include ending poverty, promoting gender equality, and improving water and sanitation conditions. Arguably, the most important goal is to “end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture” (in text citation- NY Times Article). Hunger was also an important goal on the MDG list, yet it was not fully accomplished (in text citation- Progress chart). The goals was to reduce hunger by half, and yet, the number of people who go to bed hungry