The official wording of the SDG 2 is: "End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture".
The UN explains: "It is time to rethink how we grow, share and consume our food.
If done right, agriculture, forestry and fisheries can provide nutritious food for all and generate decent incomes, while supporting rural development and protecting the environment.
Right now, our soils, freshwater, oceans, forests and biodiversity are being rapidly degraded. Climate change is putting even more pressure on the resources we depend on, increasing risks associated with disasters such as droughts and floods, is not helping at all. Many rural women and men can no longer make ends meet on their land, forcing them to migrate to cities in search of opportunities.
Then a deep change of the global food and agriculture system is needed, and the good thing is that this sector offers key solutions for development and for hunger and poverty eradication.“
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Observing the analysis of trends shows a stagnation in the fulfillment of most of the SDGs by the countries of Latin America. This means that most are not advancing at the rate they should to achieve the SDGs by 2030. There are even some countries, such as Belize, Venezuela, Haiti, Costa Rica and Panama, that show a setback in at least three of the 17 SDGs .
Particularly, in the case of Chile, despite leading the SDG Index and having notable progress in some Goals, it is worth mentioning that in terms of the analysis of progress in compliance, SDG 2 (zero hunger) appears with a lag critical, that is, with a level of progress registered as insufficient, with a high risk of non-compliance by 2030.
On the left, there is a World map with a color scale informing about the share of population that are undernourished done by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
We can see that the most undernourished areas in red are mainly in Africa, and high percentages but lower than in Africa in orange or yellow are in South America and India.
The countries with the highest rates of hunger are in Africa and high rates but lower in Central and south America, India, etc. But we have to say that too often the data in undeveloped countries is not recent, or it is missing.