Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger

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The United Nations calls its 17 Sustainable Development Goals "the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all." With a target of achieving them by 2030, the goals are all interconnected and address the global challenges we face.

Goal 2 is "Zero Hunger." As the UN puts it: "The food and agriculture sector offers key solutions for development, and is central for hunger and poverty eradication."

This series includes stories of sisters around the world working to eradicate hunger.

Working farms highlight sisters' 'just relationships with all Creation'

Nov 22, 2021

By Chris Herlinger

Rooted in values, sisters' farms grow connections to neighbors, the earth and just model of food production

Nov 22, 2021

By Chris Herlinger

Sisters' community-supported agriculture farms allow congregations to live out their values. They also model a just transition toward a more eco-friendly approach to producing and sharing food and providing alternative to mass-produced, profit-driven corporations.

Medical Mission Sisters' Deepalaya farm is an oasis in Madhya Pradesh

Oct 14, 2021

By Celine Paramundayil

At the community Deepalaya ("house of light"), founded in 2006 in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, India, the Medical Mission Sisters cultivate food, welcome all creatures (except mosquitos) and care for Mother Earth.

Give what you can, take what you need: Catholic sisters join community food pantry effort in the Philippines

Apr 27, 2021

By Ma. Ceres P. Doyo

When Ana Patricia Non's put up a "community pantry" for the needy, the effort caught immediate attention and inspired others to do the same, including congregations of women religious.

Refugees use farm training to survive food shortages during the pandemic

By Doreen Ajiambo

Apr 19, 2021

Sisters, humanitarian leaders warn that pandemic may worsen hunger

By Chris Herlinger

Aug 06, 2020

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Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger

Feature Series page

Working farms highlight sisters' 'just relationships with all Creation'

Rooted in values, sisters' farms grow connections to neighbors, the earth and just model of food production

Medical Mission Sisters' Deepalaya farm is an oasis in Madhya Pradesh

Give what you can, take what you need: Catholic sisters join community food pantry effort in the Philippines

Refugees use farm training to survive food shortages during the pandemic

Sisters, humanitarian leaders warn that pandemic may worsen hunger

Amid biting drought, sisters in Zambia fend off hunger with organic farming

Sisters take food pantry ministries outdoors during pandemic

Catholic Relief Services unveils hunger awareness campaign as pandemic hinders access to food

World hunger is its own pandemic: Aid workers brace for second-wave crisis

A look at hunger in Africa during COVID-19: Sisters stepping in

Keeping to $2.86 per day in food, and keeping an eye on food justice

US food justice, part two: Sisters take action to increase access to nutrition

US food justice, part one: Equal access to nutrition determined by economic policy

In Haiti, poverty is the problem, chronic hunger the result

Charleston's Neighborhood House reaches the marginalized through partnerships