UN SDG 2: Zero Hunger

SIDDAQ SINGH

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What did we discuss LAST WEEK? (5 min)

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 What are the UN SDGs?

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 UN Sustainable Development Goals
"blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all"

Do you think these are important for business professionals?

 Each Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) has:
• Targets
• Indicators
EXAMPLE
SDG 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Target 1.1: By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people
everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than
$1.25 a day

Indicator 1.1.1: Proportion of population below the

international poverty line, by sex, age, employment status and
geographical location (urban/rural)
7 targets & 12 indicators

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 End hunger, achieve food security
and improved nutrition and
promote sustainable agriculture

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Source:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/SUSTAINABLE-DEVELOPMENT-GOAL-2-ZERO-HUNGER-AND-THE-EIGHT-TARGETS-FOR-ASSESSING-PROGRESS_fig2_345338217
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Why do we need
this goal?

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 GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM
"A food supply chain or food system refers to the processes that describe how
food from a farm ends up on our tables. The processes include production,
processing, distribution, consumption and disposal"
Listing all the stakeholders in food supply chain.
Farming Input Production & Food Consumption
Logistics
Supplies Harvesting Processing

Fertilizers & Retailers

Farmer Processing Distributers
Pesticide
Plants
suppliers
Wholesalers
Seed Farm Transport
Labor Traders
Suppliers companies
Consumers

Farming
equipment Warehousing Restaurants
suppliers

Banks
Insurance Agricultural
Governments
universities &
Technology Market Agriculture
companies companies aggregators entrepreneurs
Microfinance research centers
institutions
 GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM
IS VAST AND COMPLEX

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How many people are involved in the global
food system?

STAKEHOLDERS

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 FOOD SECURITY
“Food Security means that all people, at all times, have physical, social, and
economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their food
preferences and dietary needs for an active and healthy life.”
– United Nations’ Committee on World Food Security
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 TRIPLE BURDEN OF MALNUTRITION
Undernutrition

Micronutrient
• According to the Global Burden of
deficiencies
Disease study 4.7 million people
died prematurely in 2017 as a
result of obesity.

Obesity
• Number of undernourished people –
811.7 million (FAO,2017)

• Micro-nutrient deficiency costs

India 1% of its GDP.
• Every day, more than 6,000
children below the age of 5 die in
India. More than half due to
micrnutrient deficiencies. (2008)
 SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEM

A sustainable food system (SFS) is a food system that delivers food security and nutrition for
all in such a way that the economic, social and environmental bases to generate food security
and nutrition for future generations are not compromised.
⚬ profitable throughout (economic sustainability);
⚬ broad-based benefits for society (social sustainability); and
⚬ a positive or neutral impact on the natural environment (environmental sustainability)
- FAO,2018
WORLD WANTS TO ACHIEVE

Fan S. et al. 2021

 Can you relate to any
of these problems?
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 What are the causes of the problems in the
global food system?

Let’s Google and discuss!

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What do you think is the role of businesses in
the food system?

Opportunities?

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 Do you think
any other
SDGs relate to
food and
agriculture?

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 THANK YOU!

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Key Takeaways
• 2 SDGs about food
• What are the problems they are catering to?
• Global food system, number of stakeholders, variety,
• Why these challenges occur?
• Complex systems
• High transaction costs
• What can be the solutions?
• Opportunities - What can be the role of business in the food system?
• All SDGs relate to food

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