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REVIEW article

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Land, Livelihoods and Food Security
Volume 8 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1412401
This article is part of the Research Topic Food System Transformation and the Realization of the UN Sustainable Development Goals View all 22 articles

Could measuring factors other than a lack of financial resources help in achieving the Zero Hunger Goal

Provisionally accepted
Jillian Hyink Jillian Hyink 1*Brandon McFadden Brandon McFadden 1*Brandy E. Phipps Brandy E. Phipps 2Craig Gundersen Craig Gundersen 3
  • 1 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, United States
  • 2 Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio, United States
  • 3 Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States

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    The second Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger, defined by the United Nations, broadly focuses on several dimensions of food access and availability, including measures of hunger and undernourishment, food insecurity, and malnutrition. Progress towards the Zero Hunger goal is monitored using indicators like the Prevalence of Undernourishment and the prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity. These indicators are widely regarded as accurately portraying the underlying phenomena of concern. There are, however, other considerations one may want to include when considering the broader food system, including the role of food access and sovereignty in the rural areas of low-income countries. This paper reviews measurements of food insecurity and reflects on how food access and sovereignty may improve food security and, conversely, how it may impede advances toward alleviating food insecurity. These considerations can be helpful in tracking the need and progress toward the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger.

    Keywords: Sustainable development goals, Food insecurity experience scale, Household Food Security Survey Module, Food security, Food sovereignity, Food insecurity

    Received: 04 Apr 2024; Accepted: 08 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Hyink, McFadden, Phipps and Gundersen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Jillian Hyink, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, United States
    Brandon McFadden, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, United States

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