NTS Bulletin May 2019

Abstract

Hunger. What it means and how it is experienced differs from country to country. World Hunger Day falls on 28 May. If we put ending hunger in perspective with Goal 2 of our Sustainable Development Goals – Zero Hunger – we need to “end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”. Now that is a tall order, which will involve: ending undernourishment, reducing inequities and revitalising existing food production systems. So, unless we look at system-wide solutions that pay particular attention to contextual differences of food production and distribution, as well as social inequalities, we merely treat the symptom and not the cause.