The second goal of the Sustainable Development Goals is called "Ending hunger, eradicating hunger, ensuring food security and improving nutrition, promoting sustainable agriculture” (hereafter SDG 2). SDG 2 makes complex linkages between food security, nutrition, rural transformation and sustainable agricultural development.

SDG 2 includes the following goals and objectives:

2.1. By 2030, ensure access to balanced and high-quality nutrition in necessary volumes and vital and safe food for all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, all year round.

2.2. By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under five years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women, and older persons.

2.3. By 2030, significantly increase the average agricultural productivity and incomes of food producers.

2.4. By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity.

2.5. Maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks.

2.a. Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity.

2.b. Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets.

2.c. Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility.