National webinar on ‘Zero Hunger by 2030’

• The webinar will be organised by Ministry of Panchayati Raj as part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.
• Representatives from World Food Programme, UNDP and Panchayati Raj Ministers of the States are expected to attend the webinar.
• Goal 2 of the 2030 Sustainable Development agenda seeks to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition, and double agricultural productivity by 2030.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

• Also known as the Global Goals, these are goals that were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
• The annual High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development serves as the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the SDGs.
• The 17 SDGs are integrated—they recognize that action in one area will affect outcomes in others, and that development must balance social, economic and environmental sustainability.

Goal 2: ZERO HUNGER

• End all forms of malnutrition By 2030, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons
• Double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers by 2030, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment.
• Ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices by 2030 that increase productivity and production, help maintain ecosystems, strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and progressively improve land and soil quality
• Increase investment in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries.
• Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies.