SDG 2 Zero Hunger
Begin your journey by exploring this page . The buttons below take you to pages which relate to SDG 2 . Student participant's work can also be found here (eventually, it is a work in progress). The materials here are only the beginning of your journey, explore them and then follow your point of interest.
SDG 2 Zero Hunger:
Go to the UN page on SDG 2 by clicking on the button. Read the information it contains.
Ask yourselves some key questions like the ones below and then go to Flipgrid and record your responses. Your teacher has the Flipgrid code.
Welcome to Flipgrid! Tap the green plus below to open the Flipgrid Camera. Then, record a short video and...
Introduce yourself briefly. Say your name, age, nationality.
Identify why you selected this SDG.
Explain the goal and what it is about
Why is it important to reach a situation of zero hunger in the world? You must highlight why the problem is relevant and requires intervention. You can present figures to support your view.
Is the goal relevant in your country? You can present figures
What should be done in your country to satisfy this goal?
How can you act to help make it achievable?
What are the facilitators and inhibitors of eradicating hunger in the world?
View the video below which was made in 2013. You might like to explore whether much has changed in the intervening seven years and also consider why this may be the case.
A STUDENT PARTICIPANT'S RESPONSE
We need sustainable agriculture
By William Lindholm (Finland)
I am concerned about the sustainability of our agriculture. This problem relates to sustainable development goal 1 and 2 - Zero Poverty and Zero Hunger. A profound change of the global food and agriculture system is needed if we are to nourish the more than 820 million people who are hungry and the additional 2 billion people the world will have by 2050. Increasing agricultural productivity and sustainable food production is crucial to help alleviate the perils of hunger.
Healthy soil leads to healthier plants and animals, resulting in much more nutritious food for people. Healthy soil holds in moisture much more efficiently than depleted soil does and leads to resilient healthy plants that are not as susceptible to attacks from diseases and pests. The healthier nutrition we receive the healthier we will be as human beings.
Sustainable farming learns from what nature has to teach us about how natural productivity truly works and applies those lessons to create systems that are both naturally productive and naturally efficient.
Nature generally works through cooperation and collaboration instead of by domination, everything is recycled in some way, and everything functions well within natural limits. Sustainable farming practices take future generations into account and are regenerative.
Sustainable agricultural practices strive to reduce energy use at all levels. Beyond embracing less energy-intensive forms of agricultural production, we can design farming systems that work smarter, not harder, and systems that will become more productive and efficient with each passing year
Farming operation is not truly sustainable unless it takes into account whether it benefits the people, the health of our planet and whether it is profitable as well. If there are enough people who demand a sustainable food system and support such efforts with their money, we may very well see such an equitable system come to pass before we know it.
Teacher's Responses
As part of our Adobe APAC Summit Linda Perryman and I created this advocacy page. Perhaps participating schools might like to do the same.