World Food Day: working for #ZeroHunger

16 October is the World Food Day, celebrated to draw attention to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 that calls to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture. 

Modern agriculture and livestock cover over one-third of the world’s land surface. In spite of production increases, we are now experiencing widespread food insecurity in what should be a world of plenty. Proven and cost-effective alternatives to minimize these impacts already exist. Overall, agriculture needs to be more effectively integrated with other land use sectors. Multifunctional approaches to food production are needed, recognizing that land provides many other vital services. Key elements include increasing productivity and nutritional values from a given area of land, reducing offsite or downstream impacts on the environment, and promoting more local production, less land-intensive diets, and a reduction in food waste. 

Learn more:

• Global Land Outlook Chapter 7: Food security and agriculture
• Land and SDGs