Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger

Thanks for highlighting that paper.

It came up through discussions we were having at the SDG 2 advocacy hub about the dramatically changing landscape for achieving SDG 2.

You've already mentioned the aid cuts.

They disproportionately affected key sectors that are critical to SDG 2, agriculture, food security, nutrition, health.

So we really wanted to take stock of what these emerging trends were, what that might mean for what's feasible in the lead up to 2030 and the SDG deadline.

And what are the opportunities that could be leveraged? And what that might mean for advocacy priorities moving forward? And so the paper's really meant to be a conversation starter.

There's been a lot more conversation around financing in different ways.

And I think that's an area where advocates in the food security and nutrition space, we are not comfortable.

So what many projects on the carbon market, they're trying to kind of evolve them to include more kind of social impacts, I'd say.

They are documenting which SDG they are supporting.

Very often I kind of, you know, I wonder how in the world does your tree planting project, you know, support, for example, SDG 5 gender equality? OK, maybe there are some women planting trees.

This is an opportunity for them.

Great.

Health, for example, children of literate mothers are 50% more likely to live to the age of five.

Their children are better nourished.

That comes into SDG 2.