Title: Practical Skills Assessment

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Introduction

Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs are a set of seventeen interconnected aims to fight
against poverty, hunger, inequality, and preventable diseases across the world ("17 goals," 2022).
SDG goals are the blueprint for peace and prosperity of the planet and people, taking into
consideration in 2015 by the UN General Assembly. The goals are shared responsibility for the
UN countries and are expected to be achieved by 2030. Each of the goals is comprised of some
distinct targets and also has some indicators to measure the progress towards the goals (Jones &
Comfort, 2019).

Analyzing “Zero Hunger-Goal no 2”

One of the most integrated and vital goals is “Zero Hunger” which is goal number 2. The
rationale of this SDG goal is that hunger is a burning question for people of the world and one of
the most serious hindrances towards sustainable human development. Nearly 690 million people,
or 8.9 percent of the world's population, are currently estimated to be undernourished. An
estimate says 2 billion people lacked regular access to sufficient food. If this pattern continues by
2030, more than 840 million hungry people. Therefore, the goal is to end hunger, achieve food
security, and better nutrition, and stimulate sustainable agriculture. Zero Hunger goal consists of
8 distinct targets and 14 indicators ("Goal 2- Department of Economic and Social Affairs," 2020).
The first target is to cease hunger and make food accessible by all people, especially for the poor
and vulnerable people including newborn children. To secure proper nutrition, sufficient food as
well as safe food for the people of the planet. Under this SDG goal, countries will take actions to
end the prevalence of undernourishment by eliminating moderate or severe food insecurity in the
world population based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale-FIES (Murray, 2015). The next
targets are to end malnutrition by 2030, to increase by twofold the agricultural productivity and
incomes of small-scale food producers, to ensure sustainable agricultural techniques and food
production systems, 2020 to sustain the genetic variety of seeds, cultivated plants, domesticated
animals, and the wild species that are connected to them, to increase investment in rural
infrastructure, agricultural research; to correct and prevent trade restrictions in world agricultural
markets and lastly to take steps for the proper functioning of food market (Quilley & Kish, 2019).
According to Fontefrancesco (2019), overcoming the barriers to achieving Zero Hunger is the
biggest challenge due to the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, conflicts, and growing
inequalities. The Ukraine-Russia crisis prompted food shortages for poor population of the world.
48 countries have been affected by soaring food prices during this warfare. However, people
working together from different parts of the globe are making a huge impact on the road to
achieving zero hunger (Govindan et al., 2020).

Companies contributing to the Zero Hunger Goal

Non-profit organizations like The Hunger Project, The Tony Robbins Foundation, Navdanya, etc.
are raising funds and reaching people who are in need across the world.

Organization Success

The Tony Robbins Foundation Millions of meals fed, provided 1.6k inmate empowerment
program in 9 countries

The Hunger Project Reached 11,732 rural communities and meal for
11,994,810 people

Navdanya Set up 122 seed banks, training for 50,000 farmers

Table:1 Organization’s contribution towards Zero Hunger (Source: foodtank.com)

Avant meat, Panera Bread, Darden Restaurants, Cisco, etc. are some of the most noteworthy
names contributing to achieving zero hunger. Avant meats produce fish using state-of-art
processes with proper nutrition value, GMO and pollutant free.

Nurture them Meat is ready

Extract cell
in proper Let it grow for
from fish
environment consumption
Fig:1 Avant Meat Process (Source: avantmeat.com)
Panera Bread, a bakery-cafe chain donates its unsold food to local hunger relief agencies. They
collect and distribute food by Panera Cares Community Breadbox. Darden Restaurant began its
Darden Harvest program in 2003. Since its beginning, the initiative has contributed more than 77
million pounds of extra food, or more than 100 million meals (Walsh-Dilley & Wolford, 2015).
To combat hunger and food poverty throughout the world, Cisco has matched employee
donations and volunteer hours for the past 11 years. More than 160 charities and NGOs are given
funding through its yearly Global Hunger Relief Campaign to provide millions of meals. Cisco
staff members donated 44,000 hours to charities that support nutrition and hunger alleviation in
the past year. The campaign earned $5.7 million for charitable organizations last year, enough to
feed 23 million hungry people worldwide ((Brown, 2021).

Conclusion

Cooperation among the countries is key to achieving zero hunger. To boost food production and
farmer income, innovation should be supported in the food and agricultural sectors. Political
conflicts, and wars are the biggest barriers to Zero Hunger. World leaders must come forward to
solve and eliminate hunger from the world
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Brown, M. E. (2021). Metrics to accelerate private sector investment in sustainable development

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 Appendix

Skill Log:

Skills Evidence Module helped in learning

this skill (if applicable)

Writing Writing assignments, essays

Research Working on research paper

Presentation Presenting in class, slide and

speech preparation

Group Work Team work, group

assignment