Zero hunger
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Rapid economic growth and increased agricultural productivity over the past two decades have seen the proportion of undernourished people drop by almost half.
Many developing countries that used to suffer from famine and hunger can now meet the nutritional needs of the most vulnerable. Central and East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean have all made huge progress in eradicating extreme hunger.
These are all significant achievements in reaching the targets set out by the first Millennium Development Goals. Unfortunately, extreme hunger and malnutrition remain a huge barrier to development in many countries. 795 million people are estimated to be chronically undernourished as of 2014, often as a direct consequence of environmental degradation, drought, and loss of biodiversity. Over 90 million children under the age of five are dangerously underweight. And one person in every four still goes hungry in Africa.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to end all forms of hunger and malnutrition by 2030, making sure all people – especially children and the more vulnerable – have access to sufficient and nutritious food all year round. This involves promoting sustainable agricultural practices: improving the livelihoods and capacities of small scale farmers, allowing equal access to land, technology, and markets. It also requires international cooperation to ensure investment in infrastructure and technology to improve agricultural productivity.
SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
By 2030 end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
Indicator : 2.1.1 Prevalence of undernourishment
Data Providers : (1) HIES, BBS, SID (2) FAO (3) NNS, DGHS, MoHFW (4) Projection, BBS, SID
Indicator : 2.1.2 Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population, based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)
Data Providers : (1) FIES, BBS, SID (2) FAO
By 2030 end all forms of malnutrition, 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
Indicator : 2.2.1 Prevalence of stunting (height for age <-2 standard deviation from the median of the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age
Data Providers : (1) CMNS/MICS, BBS, SID (2) BDHS, NIPORT, MoHFW (3) CMNS, BBS, SID (4) Projection, BBS, SID
Indicator : 2.2.2 Prevalence of malnutrition (weight for height >+2 or <-2 standard deviation from the median of the WHO Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age, by type (wasting and overweight)
Data Providers : (1) CMNS/MICS, BBS, SID (2) BDHS, NIPORT, MoHFW (3) CMNS, BBS, SID (4) Projection, BBS, SID (5) MICS, BBS, SID
By 2030 double the agricultural productivity and the incomes of small-scale food producers, particularly 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
Indicator : 2.3.1 Volume of production per labour unit by classes of farming/pastoral/forestry enterprise size
Data Providers : (1) Cost of Agriculture production survey, BBS, SID (2) Bangladesh Forest Department (BFD), MoEF (3) BADC, MoA (4) DAE, MoA (5) Agriculture Sample Census, BBS, SID
Indicator : 2.3.2 Average income of small-scale food producers, by sex and indigenous status
Data Providers : (1) SME Survey, BBS, SID (2) Agriculture Sample Census, BBS, SID
By 2030 ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems , that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather , drought, flooding and other disasters, and that progressively improve land and soil quality
Indicator : 2.4.1 Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture
Data Providers : (1) Agri Wing, BBS, SID (2) DAE, MoA (3) Survey on Agricultural Area Under Productive and Sustainable Agriculture, BBS, SID
By 2020 maintain genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants, farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at national, regional and international levels, and ensure access to fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge as internationally agreed
Indicator : 2.5.1 Number of plant and animal genetic resources for food and agriculture secured in either medium or long-term conservation facilities
Data Providers : (1) BRRI, MoA (2) MoFL (3) MoST (4) MoEF (5) BARI, MoA (6) BINA, MoA (7) BJRI, MoA (8) BSRI, MoA (9) CDB, MoA (10) BTRI, MoA (11) BSRTI, MoA
Indicator : 2.5.2 Proportion of local breeds classified as being at risk, not-at-risk or at unknown level of risk of extinction
Data Providers : (1) BARI, MoA (2) MoFL
Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development, and plant and livestock gene banks to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular in least developed countries
Indicator : 2.a.1 The agriculture orientation index for government expenditures
Data Providers : (1) NAW, BBS, SID (2) FAO (3) GED
Indicator : 2.a.2 Total official flows (official development assistance plus other official flows) to the agriculture sector
Data Providers : (1) ERD
Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets including by the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round
Indicator : 2.b.1 Agricultural Export Subsidies
Data Providers : (1) MoC (2) FD (3) BB, FID
Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives, and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility
Indicator : 2.c.1 Indicator of food price anomalies
Data Providers : (1) Prices and Wages Section, NAW, BBS, SID (2) BTC, MoC (3) FPMU, MoF
Facts and Figures
821 million
The number of undernourished people reached 821 million in 2017.
63%
In 2017 Asia accounted for nearly two thirds, 63 percent, of the world’s hungry.
22%
Nearly 151 million children under five, 22 percent, were still stunted in 2017.
1 in 8
More than 1 in 8 adults is obese.
1 in 3
1 in 3 women of reproductive age is anemic.
26%
26 percent of workers are employed in agriculture.
