Hunger
Overview fiscal space

Governments’ budget constraints are too tight

To rise to the challenges of the current polycrisis, governments need more fiscal space

Overview global food security

How to end world hunger

Overview: This is what needs to happen to ensure global food security and achieve SDG2

Approaches

Industrial agriculture has failed

The solution to the present food price and hunger crisis is to transition food production to agroecological concepts suited to the location

Food prices

Number of starving people worldwide is again on the rise

Rocketing food prices are only partly due to shortages; food speculation and energy prices are key drivers

Fighting poverty

Social protection improves food security

Why social safety nets are key to fighting hunger and poverty in the global south

Rural development

Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems

Why the FAO is promoting disadvantaged rural communities who live in intricate relationships with ecosystems

Farming

Expensive input

Ghanaian farmers can’t afford fertiliser anymore

Farming

What agriculture-policy reforms must deliver

Smallholder farmers are clever entrepreneurs who know exactly what they want and need

Smallholder farmers

Neglected, but essential agricultural heritage

Why the future of human civilisation depends on impoverished farming communities in remote rural areas

Our view

Why SDG2 – ending hunger – deserves very much attention

For the sake of food security, policymakers must focus on smallholder farms

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