Air Quality & Goal 2 - Zero Hunger
Goal 2 is to end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. Hunger is a profound and complicated problem and just like air pollution, it requires a multi-sectoral approach.
There are severe interlinkages between hunger, food scarcity and climate change.
Target 2.1 aims to ensure access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food for poor and vulnerable communities year-round. A total of 2.37 billion people face food or nutrition scarcity. With the population continuing to grow, the need for innovative and sustainable food production is more important than ever.
More people means more agricultural systems that cause land degradation, resulting in less green space to absorb atmospheric carbon. Not only does this contribute to climate change, but it also significantly reduces air quality.
Efforts such as increasing sustainable food production, decreasing food loss and waste and improving the global supply chain contribute to ending hunger and malnutrition, and to decreasing the rate of climate change.
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Air Pollution and Food Production
UNECE article on the correlation between food production and air pollution.
Climate Change Impacts on Human System
Book published in 2014 on how to understand climate change from a human and ecological perspective.