Call for Participation
THEME
The THEME OF 2024 for the Celebration of the World Rural Development Day is
Let’s End Hunger by Making Food Affordable for All
To celebrate the world rural development day (6th July) plan your event and submit us at https://worldruraldevelopmentday.org/list-an-event/ . Your event can be either physical or online or both.
These events should be voluntary basis. You can organize your event or take actions throughout the year in 2024.
- Art
- Exhibitions
- Education
- Festivals
- New Idea Competition
- Clean ups
- Pledges and Commitments
- Youth Awareness
- Tree plantation
- Recreation & sports
- Gain Support and Raise Funds
- Go LIVE
- Spread the Word
- Learning Lessons and Curriculum
- Field Trips
- Presentations and Workshops
- Entertainment (Art, Music & Films)
- Exhibitions and Galleries
- Others
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.
The need for better nutrition was recognized in SDG 2, which aims to “end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture”. The goal acknowledges that efforts to combat hunger and malnutrition have advanced significantly since 2000. However, ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition for all will require continued and focused efforts, especially in Asia and Africa.
However, improving nutrition goes beyond SDG2. Success in nutrition is linked to each of the SDGs – improving nutrition is foundational to sustainable global development. Tackling malnutrition will have wide-reaching consequences for improving health and working to end poverty.
To make progress on sustainable development it is therefore essential to make progress on nutrition. Similarly, achieving this goal will depend on progress across many of the other SDGs, including those aimed at clean water and sanitation, renewable energy, education and gender equality. https://www.powerofnutrition.org/nutrition-and-the-sustainable-development-goals/
- It is estimated that between 690 and 783 million people in the world faced hunger in 2022. This is 122 million more people than before the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, the increase in global hunger observed in the last two years has stalled and, in 2022, there were about 3.8 million fewer people suffering from hunger than in 2021.
- There is no room for complacency though, as hunger is still on the rise throughout Africa, Western Asia and the Caribbean. Indeed, it is projected that almost 600 million people will still be facing hunger in 2030.
- This is 119 million more people than in a scenario in which neither the COVID-19 pandemic nor the war in Ukraine had occurred, and around 23 million people more than in a scenario where the war had not happened.
- In 2022, 2.4 billion people, comprising relatively more women and people living in rural areas, did not have access to nutritious, safe and sufficient food all year round.
To achieve zero hunger by 2030, urgent coordinated action and policy solutions are imperative to address entrenched inequalities, transform food systems, invest in sustainable agricultural practices, and reduce and mitigate the impact of conflict and the pandemic on global nutrition and food security.