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Sustainable Development Goals

Seventeen UN goals adopted in 2015 to be achieved by 2030, including ending hunger, ensuring food security, and improving nutrition.

Also: SDGs

Goal 2 (Zero Hunger) is the most nutrition-focused, but health-relevant indicators run through goals on poverty, water, gender equity, and inequality. WHO publishes annual health statistics aligned with the SDGs. The SDGs frame global nutrition policy and are cited as the broadest comparative standard in community nutrition.

How one textbook covers it

  • Krause and Mahan's Food and the Nutrition Care Process, 16th ed. — Chapter 8

    Goal 2 (Zero Hunger) is the most nutrition-focused, but health-relevant indicators run through goals on poverty, water, gender equity, and inequality. WHO publishes annual health statistics aligned with the SDGs. The SDGs frame global nutrition policy and are cited as the broadest comparative standard in community nutrition.

Related terms

Healthy People, Social Determinants of Health