Sustainable Development Goal
2

Zero Hunger

End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.

Goal 2 Targets

2.1 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.

2.2 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.

2.3 By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular 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.

2.4 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.

2.5 By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed.

2.A Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries.

2.B Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through 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.

2.C 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.

SourceUN Sustainable Development

Implementing partners

International Fund for Agricultural Development
International Organization for Migration
Congress of Local Authorities from Moldova
Moldova Bureau for Diaspora Relations
Moldova Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment
Moldova National Bureau of Statistics
State Medical University of Moldova
Moldova, National Food Safety Agency
Moldova State University of Medicine and Pharmacy
Moldova local public administration
Moldova Ministry of Economy
Moldova National Agency for Public Health
Moldova Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry
Moldova Ministry of Labor and Social Protection
Moldova Ministry of Internal Affairs
Moldova Ministry of Health
Moldova Organization for Entrepreneurship Development (ODA)
Moldova Ministry of Economic Development and Digitalization

Investing Partners

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
International Fund for Agricultural Development
World Health Organization
Austrian Development Agency
European Commission
European Commission - Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations
United States Agency for International Development
Migration MPTF
Government of Norway
Government of the United Kingdom
Government of France
Adaptation Fund
Government of Japan
Government of the Netherlands
IOM Development Fund
Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs
United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Green Climate Fund (Readiness and Preparatory Support)
Germany Federal Foreign Office
Private Donors
Joint Sustainable Development Goals Fund
US Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration

Our work on Zero Hunger is linked to these other Sustainable Development Goals: