SDG Video Project Notes

Introduction
Engaging question:

What will it take to end world hunger?

What is the issue present?

Despite it not being an issue for the countries that we live in (wealthier
countries), starvation has affected many underdeveloped countries and
have led to many cases of death from starvation. This is a major problem
since many people, as of right now are struggling to find access to healthy
and fresh food.

What is an SDG?

 An SDG stands for “sustainable development goal”

 There are 17 of these goals and 169 targets
 Each numbered goal tackles a different modern-day challenge in
society

Chosen SDG:

Personal connections?

Explanation
What does “zero hunger” mean?

Why does it matter?

Examples of challenges related to the issue:

Evidence and Impact (Logos)

What is a real story about someone dealing with the challenges of
starvation?

How many cases of hunger like this have there been?

What are current efforts or initiatives working towards the end of world
hunger?

Call to Action
What are changes that the audience can make right now to help solve this
issue?

Strong closing statement reinforcing the importance of zero hunger?

Script
According to the SDG report of 2023, it has been estimated that more
than 600 million people around the world will be facing hunger in the next
5 years, despite the United Nation’s many attempts to prevent such an
issue.

There are up to 21000 people dying every day from starvation around the
world (Oxfam international, 2024), that’s about 7,665,000 hunger-fueled
deaths every year, nearly 0.09% of our population depleting every year.

Often underdeveloped or poor countries end up having food shortages

and crises, in contrast to wealthier countries where many citizens end up
ignorantly discarding well-conditioned foods such as vegetables and fruits.
This inequality of food supply leads to millions of hunger-induced deaths
around the globe.

It’s anyone who could be facing this hunger crisis right now, an adult, a
child, a mother, a whole family, barely getting by due to their lack of
resources and nutrition, suffering and hoping to survive with what little
food they have.

With these saddening facts in mind, I and many others can only think:
what will it take to end world hunger?

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Today, I will be sharing with you information about my chosen SDG: zero
hunger, but firstly, how about we go back to my initial question?

For us to answer this question, we need to know the basics. So, first of all,
what is an SDG?

SDGs stand for Sustainable Development Goals, as the name suggests,

these are goals which aim for sustainable habits.

The SDGs were founded by the United Nations in a meeting in Rio de

Janeiro in 2012, where 17 goals and 169 targets were set to be achieved
by 2030 to provide sustainability and protection to the Earth. Each one of
these numbered goals tackle a modern-day challenge in society and the
planet such as poverty, quality education, or this video’s chosen topic: to
end world hunger.
Now that we’re aware of the definition of an SDG, let’s draw attention to
the SDG in question, what does zero hunger mean? - and what’s the
reason behind it?

In your head it’s quite easy to imagine, frankly: the ending of hunger, no
starving children, no starving people- but it’s more than that.

We cannot forget that zero hunger also implements aspects such as safe
agriculture and food security as well.

A quote from the UN World Food Programme executive director Ertharin

Cousin in 2016 states: “There is no food security without peace and no
peace without food.”

What is meant by peace? We can determine that peace is meant by the

end of greed within the food industry and the people who throw away
perfectly good food who lack the self-awareness of their actions.

This quote reveals a saddening truth about many countries who are
currently going through a food crisis due to the greed the food industry
presents within itself.

An example of the food industry’s greed could be how in March of 2023,

well-renowned chocolate brands we all know and love including Godiva
(goe-dai-va), Lindt (lint), and Ferrero (fr-eh-row) were exposed in a study
conducted by students at the University of Wollongong (wu-luhn-gaang),
Australia for their lack of obedience to child labor laws.

It seems ironic how these brands claim to cater to their worldwide

consumers but cannot provide any proper work conditions- let alone food,
what they’re known for- to their own workers, which go as far to forcing
children to work.

Children could’ve been starving during production, only for the chocolates
you bought for your friend, Bethany, to be thrown away because she’s
dieting, apparently.

Man, Bethany, the least you could’ve done was give it back to me or let
someone else have it…

Another reason for starvation in some countries could be a poor economy,

or perhaps a government with a lack of financial help and stability. It could
also be due to poor climate conditions, lack of hygiene, conflict or war and
inequality- with all these facts, it’s safe to assume that world hunger is an
issue dependent on majority of the other present SDGs, which also
reflects the progress done for each one.

From this we can conclude that zero hunger means for all humans to be
able to eat in the same conditions, have peace amongst each other which
will not lead to any conflict making one’s access to food inequal to
another’s.

Those who still haven’t been able to paint the full picture yet are most
likely asking themselves: Why does this SDG matter?

It’s quite clear why this is an issue which matters, every human should
have the equal right to have a proper, healthy meal, after all, food is what
keeps us alive. It’s what gives us energy, energy to do what you love,
which can be simple as a hobby or as complex as creating something
innovative.

The energy that we get from food helps us feel more alive and spark the
potential within us to be our best selves.

However, the reason I personally chose this SDG relies on what I

witnessed in my trip to Egypt a few months ago. You see, I had visited the
busy shops of Historic Cairo, an old Islamic city of the area. It was
overwhelming seeing the amount of people there to see the sights of that
historic monument of a city.

However, once me and my family had gone outside the market area to
wait for our van, I saw dozens of children without homes, what I had
noticed was their famished appearance and them desperate to get any
form of food.

What was something that really touched me was when my mom had
bought a few small bags of chips for one or two boys, despite me not
initially noticing that, I felt like there must be some hope for this city to
not be filled with starving children.

That moment had inspired me to be determined to at least try to speak

out about a cause like this once./

Despite all the pessimism when speaking about world hunger, there have
been attempts to try and improve the situation, a good example being the
establishment of the United Nation’s World Food Programme in 1961,
which since then has been fighting world hunger non-stop through
transporting food to victims of natural or human-made disasters.

Another great example of an organization making its best efforts for this
cause would be the Hunger Project, which its concept revolves around
providing food to malnourished communities in poverty, making women
their priority when facing the issue.

However, making a difference for world hunger is not only a responsibility

held by these philanthropist organizations.
Remember how I mentioned that many of us end up throwing away food
that is still in good condition? – That doesn’t necessarily mean we’re only
feeding into the problem; it also tells us that we can make a change and
strive for these goal-based solutions- but how do we do it?

A good strategy that we can use to help with combating world hunger is
reducing your food waste, perhaps adding any organic food scraps in a
compost can help with creating rich soil for your own at-home vegetation
instead of buying it from the store.

Another way of helping would be donating to reliable organizations such

as the ones I had mentioned beforehand. Even a small donation can make
a huge difference.

An accessible form of not only helping with world hunger, but also being
sustainable, is buying and eating more seasonal and vegetarian foods
rather than processed foods and meat, which are main conductors of
pollution. This can affect the climate of those in need positively.

We’ve covered everything at this point, so that leaves us with our

question back from the beginning of this video: What will it take to end
world hunger?

We can conclude that world hunger will be a major group effort, only it’s
not a group effort, it’s a global effort: it requires governments to act,
leaders who have so much power who need to take a stand, these
massive zero hunger organizations to directly bring food to malnourished
individuals and most importantly: your support.

You can decide whether it’s now or never that you’ll decide picking up
habits that can drastically benefit people’s lives through something so
highly demanded yet in such short supply: food. After all, one small action
can lead to one major impact.

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