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Achieving Zero Hunger By 2030 And Preventing Nutritional Starvation

You walk into any school canteen during the recess or short-break as some call it and you will find the students gorging over items like Samosa, Vada Pav, Patties other such carbohydrate-dense food items. You will not fail to notice that many of these children are obese. The recess time is no longer an opportunity for short-burst of play activity like catching cook we grew-up. Recess is food time. 

As a result, today’s young generation are overfed on energy and underfed on nutrients.

The skewed choice of food is not just limited to urban privileged kids but also a trend was seen among the lesser privileged kids living in shanties or slums in urban cities.

This young girl through her short video suggests a way her generation can achieve zero hunger by 2030 while also ensuring that our populace is not a victim of nutritional starvation. The model suggested here is easily replicable through volunteering program. 





The United Nations promotes the Zero Hunger Challenge with elements from within the sustainable development goals.
Sometime in 2017, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said, "Achieving the international community's goal of eradicating hunger and malnutrition by 2030 is indeed possible, but this requires a scaling up of action, including greater investments in agriculture and sustainable rural development".




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