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| 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 |
| DFAT | One World, One Future | One World One Future’s Goal #1 Reduced hunger, stronger resilience |
| The Global Island | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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 |
| DFAT | One World, One Future | One World One Future’s Goal #1 Reduced hunger, stronger resilience |
| The Global Island | ||
| 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 | Elements covered by the National Biodiversity Action Plan 2017-2021 | Conserve and restore biodiversity and ecosystem services in the wider countryside. |
| Food Wise 2025 | For Ireland to be a global leader in sustainable food production building on our national advantages, specific objectives articulated in the Strategy. | |
| Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 | For Ireland to be a global leader in sustainable food production building on our national advantages, specific objectives articulated in the Strategy. | |
| 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 | National Genetic Conservation Strategies for animals and plants. | |
| National Biodiversity Action Plan 2017-2021 | Conserve and restore biodiversity and ecosystem services in the wider countryside. | |
| Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 | Conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources for food and agriculture. | |
| 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 |
| DFAT | One World, One Future | One World One Future’s Goal #1 Reduced hunger, stronger resilience |
| The Global Island | ||
| 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. |
SDG 2.3.1 Average annual value of output per labour input of food producers
SDG 2.3.2 Annual income of food producers
Both of these indicators relate to small scale food producers. The following method was used to determine the small-scale producers:
Revenue and Costs are not available from the Farm Structure Survey but Standard Output[1] will be used as a proxy for revenue. Costs are determined depending on the amount of land, number of livestock and type of farm.
Using the FSS data from 2016 and applying the three thresholds above results in just over 39,000 farm holdings. The above indicators are then calculated as follows:
SDG 2.3.1
SDG 2.3.2
For i producers, where,
SO = Standard Output
LD = number of labour days per unit
n = number of small scale producers.
Applying the above formula using FSS data results in an indicator of 32.33.
Where C = Costs per holding.<
Applying the above formula using FSS data results in an indicator of €2,410.
[1] Average monetary value of the agricultural output at farm-gate prices
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