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UN Sustainable Development Goals

The United Nations have issued 17 ambitious goals to try and build a better, fairer, and more sustainable future for the world.

Sustainable Development Goal 2 aim to end hunger.

Current estimates show that .

However the UN recognises that hunger is complex and is not just a problem that not enough food is being produced. Hunger can have many different causes:

• poverty - families can't afford the food they need
• war and conflict - farming and food production stops or food supply chains are blocked or broken
• disease - people can be too ill to grow food, or cannot work and so cannot afford food
• natural disasters, such as floods or drought - crops can be destroyed or fail
• hidden hunger - people do not have the right foods to provide the nutrition they need

World hunger facts

• The majority of the world's undernourished are still found in Asia
• In 2019 around 2 billion people in the world did not have regular access to safe, nutritious food
• In 2019 nearly 1 in 10 people in the world were exposed to severe levels of food insecurity

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