Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger

SDG 2 aims to end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture. It emphasizes the complex interconnectedness of food security, nutrition, rural transformation, and sustainable agriculture. A comprehensive approach is needed, considering factors like access to food, nutrition, rural development, and sustainable farming practices to create lasting solutions and ensure sufficient food supply.

• End hunger and ensuring that all people have year-round access to safe, nutritious, and adequate food.
• Eliminate all kinds of malnutrition, including attaining internationally agreed-upon goals for stunting and wasting in children under five.
• Increase the incomes and production of small-scale food producers by twofold, especially for women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, and fishermen.
• Ensure sustainable food production systems and resilient agricultural methods that boost productivity and production, aid in ecosystem preservation, and strengthen ability for climate change adaptation.
• Preserve genetic variety while making sure that the advantages of using genetic resources are distributed fairly and equally.
• Enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing nations by investing more in plant and livestock gene banks, technological development, agricultural research and extension services, and rural infrastructure.

• UPES runs a Labour School at Kandoli campus, focusing on Early Childhood Care and Education for construction workers' children aged 3-8, providing nutritious mid-day meals.

  - 900 children were provided mid-day meals