Open Development Mekong publishes a new topic page on SDG 2 Zero hunger
Despite earlier successes in reducing hunger for the MDGs, the ASEAN region continues to struggle to eliminate hunger and improve nutrition. In the LMCs, only Vietnam and Thailand attained the MDG target for reducing the number of underweight children, and malnutrition still affects one in three children in Lao PDR and Cambodia. Food security remains at risk as a result of decreasing agricultural productivity, ineffective policies, urbanization and climate impacts. Climate change exacerbates the issues: a drop in agricultural production as a result of erratic weather patterns has already affected food security and nutrition in the LMCs. In some respects ASEAN has, as a whole, deteriorated in regard to SDG 2.
Please access Open Development Mekong’s new topic page on SDG 2 Zero hunger for more detail.
