Subject Guides: Sustainable Development Goals at NSCC: Goal 2: Zero Hunger

About Goal 2

Goal 2, Zero Hunger, aims to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030. In Canada, food insecurity continues to affect our citizens and increasingly so, our students. In the fall of 2021, food insecurity affected 56.8% of post-secondary students in Canada

Learn more about Goal 2

The Global Goals. (2021, October 16). End hunger: The world's to do list [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/W71xwoDFAoA

NSCC and Goal 2

Examples of NSCC initiatives that are helping to advance Goal 2: Zero Hunger.
Meal-it-Forward Project	Enactus students at Marconi Campus have created the Meal-it-Forward Project, donating grocery store gift cards to students facing food insecurity.
Student Pantry	All NSCC Campuses have a Student Pantry providing food for students experiencing food insecurity.
Sustainable Agriculture	The NSCC Applied Environment and Agriculture Technology Research Lab (EATLab) seeks sustainable agriculture solutions to industry challenges.

Resources and Links

Government of Canada: Food Security
Discover how Canada determines food security status.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN: The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World
The report highlights the need for a deeper reflection on how to better address the global food security and nutrition situation
MacLean's: The fight to end hunger on Canadian university campuses
Forty per cent of post-secondary students in Canada are food insecure. Schools—and other students—are finding solutions
World Food Programme: A global food crisis
Explores the underlying causes of global hunger and famine

Books

Regenesis: Feeding the world without devouring the planet by George Monbiot
What if there were a way to stop climate change and end global hunger at the same time?
eBook - Uncertain harvest: The future of food on a warming planet by Mosby et. al
ISBN: 9780889777262
The authors present a roadmap for a global food policy, while examining eight foods that could save us
eBook - The unending hunger: Tracing women and food insecurity across borders by Megan Carney
As women grapple with the pervasive conditions of poverty that hinder efforts at getting enough to eat, they find few options for alleviating the various forms of suffering that accompany food insecurity.

Key Organizations

Action Against Hunger
Action Against Hunger is a global humanitarian organization that takes decisive action against the causes and effects of hunger
UNICEF: Nutrition
UNICEF works to prevent all forms of malnutrition by improving children’s and women’s access to nutritious, safe, affordable and sustainable diets
World Food Programme
WFP works in over 120 countries and territories to bring life-saving food to people displaced by conflict and made destitute by disasters
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization leads and champions global efforts to achieve better health for all.