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GINZA, TOKYO, JAPAN – 2021/06/02: Construction site guards wearing masks as a preventive measure against the spread of covid-19 walks past a sign advertising UN’s ‘Sustainable development goals’ in Ginza. The State of Emergency in Tokyo will last until end of June 2021. (Photo by Stanislav Kogiku/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization was quite clear in the release of its nutrition flagship report on Wednesday that it is far off from reaching the organization’s goal of ending world hunger by 2030. In fact, the subtarget of undernourishment and food insecurity is currently listed as backsliding by the UN, as its status is worse now then when the goals were adopted in 2015. This is sadly a reality for much of the 2030 SDG agenda, as a report on its progress shows. Sticking with the example of hunger, the UN’s target number 2 out of 17, the inception of the Sustainable Development Goals came at a time when progress on the topic was good and only 552 million people in the world were estimated to be undernourished in 2014, down from 789 million in 2005. An end to world hunger might have seemed palatable at the time given these successes, but even when 2015 numbers were released the following year, world hunger had already risen due to conflicts intensifying in places like Syria, Sudan and Somalia as well as erratic El Niño climate patterns. Undernourishment took another leap up in 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic shook the world and has been slow to recover since as global crises and instability persist. This chart shows the progress of UN SDG subtargets in 2025, by main target (in percent). Statista Wars, political instability, climate change effects and economic woes have affected many…

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