- Discover resources to help you explore SDG issues
- Learn about other people and organizations working on clean water
RESEARCH AND POWERFUL ACTION IDEAS
Here are some ways to explore the SDG 2 issue as you start to think about solving a problem related to hunger.
Click each tab to learn more.
Resources
United Nations
Main UN SDG site that lists all targets for this SDG.
UN Food & Agriculture Organization
The FAO has a section of its website devoted to the SDGs, with publications, tools, and useful data portals.
World Food Programme Hunger Map
Live map using data streamed globally on food security, weather, population size, conflict, hazards, nutrition to track and predict food security in near real-time.
Global Hunger Index
This annual report provides in-depth data on hunger trends and challenges at national and regional levels.
World Bank
The World Bank’s resources on food security and hunger offer a policy-focused perspective on achieving SDG 2 through economic growth, poverty reduction, and improved agricultural practices.
Action Against Hunger
This global humanitarian organization takes decisive action against the causes and effects of hunger. Their website is a good resource of statistics and their solutions for ending hunger.
Organizations
Slow Food
is a global movement of local groups and activists united by the common goal of ensuring everyone has access to good, clean and fair food. The organization defends cultural and biological diversity, promotes food education and influences policies in public and private sectors.
Seed Programs International
enables access to seed, training, and agricultural resources to help reduce hunger and poverty, improve nutrition, build local community capacity, cultivate climate resilience, and create sustainable practices for resilient livelihoods.
Clean Cooking Alliance
More than one in three people depend on polluting open fires or inefficient stoves to cook their food, harming health, the climate, and the environment. CCA works with a global network of partners to build an inclusive industry to make clean cooking accessible to all.
One Acre Fund
works with millions of smallholder farmers in Africa to equip them with the supplies and training they need to thrive, helping them grow more food, plant more trees, and earn more money from their harvests
Green Bronx Machine
through their school-based model, uses urban agriculture aligned to key school performance indicators to grow healthy students and healthy schools to transform communities that are fragmented and marginalized into neighborhoods that are inclusive and thriving.
Akshaya Patra
provides children in India with a hot, nutritious and tasty mid-day meal every school day as an incentive to come to school. Thus, the vision – ‘No child in India shall be deprived of education because of hunger.’
Cool People and Projects
An environmental activist and food sovereignty advocate, Vandana Shiva promotes sustainable agriculture and the rights of small-scale farmers, particularly in India. She founded Navdanya, an organization dedicated to seed saving and organic farming, and has written more than 20 books on food sovereignty and biodiversity.
Leah Lizarondo is the CEO of founder of Food Rescue Hero, a platform has helped recove over 70M pounds of food since 2015 from going to waste via technology that mobilizes over 25,000 drivers in 13 cities –food rescue heroes.
Imani Black, from Maryland, USA, founded Minorities In Aquaculture, a nonprofit organization that empowers and supports underrepresented demographics in the aquaculture industry by providing paid internships, technical skills training and career development resources.
Alice Waters, a chef and food activist, has promoted organic and sustainable food through her Edible Schoolyard Project and the School Lunch Initiative, teaching children about growing and cooking nutritious food, helping them to develop lifelong healthy eating habits and values.
Mobile Apps for SDG 2
Too Good To Go
connects users with local restaurants, bakeries, and supermarkets that have surplus food. Users can buy discounted “magic bags”, filled with surplus food, reducing food waste and making meals more affordable.
Nosh
uses AI to track expiration dates for foods, tracks eating and waste habits of users, creates shopping lists, and suggests recipes, all to help reduce food waste.
Bountiful Baskets
Customer app, by the Sandeen Sisters of Minnesota, USA, allows clients of the local non-profit utilize their services. This is a great example of a community partnership solution.
Made by a Technovation team
ignitia
delivers localized forecasts to farmers through an advanced AI model optimized for the tropics that is twice as accurate as global models.
AgriConnect
by Team Smart Elite of Nigeria, is a mobile app connecting farmers, nearby landowners, and seedling sellers.
Made by a Technovation team
- Follow people who are working in this space – check out their social media pages to learn more and possibly contact them.
- Reach out to local universities (or even remote!) where people are working on hunger issues.
- Scroll to the bottom of websites and papers to look at the bibliography – many great links can lead you to more projects and information.