The CSO, through Ireland's Institute for SDGs (IIS), supports reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals.
| Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | ||
| Goal 2.1 | By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round | |
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| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DFA | A Better World | Combatting poverty and hunger is one of Ireland’s flagship foreign policies, reflecting the historic focus of Ireland’s development cooperation. A Better World identifies "Food" as a key area of intervention. It commits Ireland to refreshing its approach to hunger and undernutrition within sustainable food systems and to strengthening its integrated resilience approach to hunger and nutrition in development and humanitarian settings. Through participation in the National Famine Commemoration Committee, we will seek to foster research into, and awareness of, the Irish experience as a basis for Irish advocacy for the elimination of famine and hunger worldwide. |
| DAFM | National Task Team on Rural Africa (NTTRA) | Establishment of Ireland Africa Rural Development Committee (IARDC) responsible for the ensuring the implementation, accountability and resourcing of the NTTRA Report’s recommendations. |
| Goal 2.2 | By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DoH | A Healthy Weight for Ireland – Obesity Policy and Action Plan 2016-2025 | A sustained downward trend (averaging 0.5% per annum as measured by the Healthy Ireland Survey) in the level of excess weight averaged across all adults; a sustained downward trend (averaging 0.5% per annum as measured by Child Obesity Surveillance Ireland (COSI)) in the level of excess weight in children; and a reduction in the gap in obesity levels between the highest and lowest socioeconomic groups by 10%, as measured by the Healthy Ireland and COSI surveys. |
| Women's Health Taskforce | To improve women’s health outcomes and experiences of healthcare. | |
| Goal 2.3 | By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DAFM | Irish participation in the work of the Codex Alimentarius Commission | |
| DFA | A Better World | A Better World recognises the role the private sector and well-functioning markets can play in enhancing agricultural productivity and supporting smallholder farmers. It commits Ireland to deepening its focus on agricultural markets and investment in development, including links to the Irish private sector. A Better World also commits Ireland to supporting inclusive economic growth around agriculture, especially for women and young people. Ireland will seek to create a new funding initiative for women’s economic empowerment with an explicit focus on agriculture. |
| Goal 2.4 | By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DAFM | Foodwise 2025 (Agri-Food 2030 SEA currently out for public consultation) | For Ireland to be a global leader in sustainable food production building on our national advantages and specific objectives articulated in the Strategy. |
| National Animal Health Surveillance Strategy 2016-2021 | Development of an animal health surveillance strategy, covering governance, communications, surveillance quality and prioritisation. | |
| CAP Strategic Plan | To further improve the sustainable development of farming, food and rural areas. | |
| Organic Food Sector Strategy for Development 2019-2025 8 Feb 2021 | To further develop a viable Organic Food sector in Ireland enhancing the sustainability credentials of Irish food. | |
| Goal 2.5 | By 2020, 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 at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DAFM | Crop Variety Evaluation Programme | DAFM is obliged by EU legislation to provide crop breeders with a national system of plant variety evaluation and registration. |
| Seed Certification | DAFM is the certifying authority for Seed Certification in Ireland. This is an EU wide quality assurance system, underpinned by the EU Seeds Directives and Regulations, whereby seed intended for marketing is subject to official control and inspection to ensure minimum standards throughout the EU. | |
| Conservation of Genetic Resources | This programme provides funding to projects aimed at conserving native genetic resources in the plant, animal, forestry, aquatic and microorganisms and invertebrate domains. In addition a national gene bank containing germplasm for various crops and the potato collection is maintained. The purpose of the gene bank is to preserve seed in long term storage for potential future use particularly in crop breeding. | |
| Goal 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 in developing countries, in particular least developed countries | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DFA | A Better World | A Better World acknowledges that smart investment in sustainable agriculture also has the potential to provide youth employment, with a focus on commercialising farms and strengthening agri-food value chain. It recognises the potential for greater input from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, as well as Teagasc and Irish universities. It notes that linkages to the emerging need to tackle food systems, to the role of nutrition in the humanitarian development nexus, to climate adaptation, to gender inequality and Ireland's engagement with the private sector will all receive additional attention and effort. |
| DAFM | Africa Agri-food Development Programme (AADP) | Support Irish agri-food companies to partner with African companies to support sustainable growth of the local food industry; to build markets for local produce; and to support mutual trade between Ireland and Africa. |
| Goal 2.b | Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DAFM | World Trade Organisation (WTO) Export Competition Ministerial Decision of 19 December 2015, the ‘Nairobi Package’, WT/MIN(15)/45 | Ireland works with the European Commission and Member State colleagues to ensure elimination of export subsidies in accordance with the agreement struck at the WTO Ministerial Conference in Nairobi in 2015. |
| WT/L/980 | ||
| Goal 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 | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DAFM | Food Wise Strategic Blueprint for Agri-Food Sector | To ensure up-to-date and timely provision of relevant data to the CSO and European Commission in line with EU legislative requirements. |
| Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | |
| 2.1 By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round |
2.1.1 Prevalence of undernourishment |
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2.1.2 Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population, based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) |
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| 2.2 By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons |
2.2.1 Prevalence of stunting (height for age <-2 standard deviation from the median of the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age |
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2.2.2 Prevalence of malnutrition (weight for height >+2 or <-2 standard deviation from the median of the WHO Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age, by type (wasting and overweight) |
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2.2.3 Prevalence of anaemia in women aged 15 to 49 years, by pregnancy status (percentage) |
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| 2.3 By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment |
2.3.1 Volume of production per labour unit by classes of farming/pastoral/forestry enterprise size |
| 2.3.2 Average income of small-scale food producers, by sex and indigenous status | |
2.4 By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality |
2.4.1 Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture |
| 2.5 By 2020, 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 at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed | 2.5.1 Number of (a) plant and (b) animal genetic resources for food and agriculture secured in either medium- or long-term conservation facilities |
| 2.5.2 Proportion of local breeds classified as being at risk of extinction | |
| 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 in developing countries, in particular least developed countries | 2.a.1 The agriculture orientation index for government expenditures |
| 2.a.2 Total official flows (official development assistance plus other official flows) to the agriculture sector | |
| 2.b Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round | 2.b.1 Agricultural export subsidies |
| 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 | 2.c.1 Indicator of food price anomalies |
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