Abstract
Abstract Progress toward food and nutrition security (FNS) needs to be sharply accelerated in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal for ending hunger and malnutrition, especially in rural areas. The G20 should target interventions and investment opportunities to maximize impact on people and transformation of rural areas. Currently, few G20 countries map investments, technical assistance, capacity building and policy improvement in a data-driven way. Such tracking of needs, policies, and resources could include G20 countries’ domestic efforts alongside countries they support with development assistance. The G20 could develop such a methodology to identify countries and interventions where additional resources could have a lasting impact. They could then systematically track and streamline FNS actions taken across international organizations and initiatives to help ensure the SDG is achieved.
Highlights
The G20 has taken up the challenge of improving global food security, producing a Food Security and Nutrition Framework paper in 2014 under the Australian presidency, adopting a Food Security Action Plan in Antalya in 2015, and endorsing a proposal on good practices on family farming and smallholder agriculture in Hangzhou in 2016
A starting point for the G20’s food and nutrition security (FNS) efforts should be to understand trends in global aggregates and country details of the main targets identified by the Inter-Agency Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators
As of 2014, 65 countries, two-thirds of which are in Africa, have cereal yields of less than 2MT per hectare, a threshold above which there is some evidence to suggest that households begin generating self-sustaining advances in economic growth (McArthur and McCord 2017)
Summary
The G20 has taken up the challenge of improving global food security, producing a Food Security and Nutrition Framework paper in 2014 under the Australian presidency, adopting a Food Security Action Plan in Antalya in 2015, and endorsing a proposal on good practices on family farming and smallholder agriculture in Hangzhou in 2016. The 2017 Hamburg summit recommitted the G20 to supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including the second goal of ending hunger by 2030. The commitments reflect a good understanding of principal challenges, those relevant to developing countries’ rural areas, which are estimated to be home to roughly three quarters of today’s undernourished people (WFP 2016). With roughly 800 million undernourished people and 150 million stunted children, as well as pressures from additional population and income growth, global food supply must rise by at least 50 percent by 2050, a distinct challenge in an era when climate change, degraded lands and water scarcity pose threats to productivity in many areas. In a global context of stagnating budgetary resources, it is even more important to allocate resources effectively This requires changes in how the international community prioritizes and allocates its resources. Targeting effort to maximize FNS progress within and across countries should be a central aim of G20 coordination
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