Transitioning to Zero Hunger
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Beschreibung
In 2015, the United Nations decided to establish the goal of achieving “zero hunger” in the world by 2030 through “outcome targets” such as eliminating hunger and improving access to food, ending all forms of malnutrition, promoting sustainable and resilient agriculture, and maintaining genetic diversity in food production. As a result of this decision, strategies are under way in different countries around the world in the form of political, academic, development, and non-governmental organisation projects and programs. Five years later, these strategies have certainly generated results that need to be documented and analysed so as to answer the following questions: what are the progress and success stories in terms of policies, innovations, technologies, and approaches to reach the zero hunger goal? What are the constraints and mitigation strategies? Are we really in a phase of transition towards the zero hunger goal? What new directions do we need to consider to achieve this goal, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected all sectors of development around the world?
Transitioning to Zero Hunger is part of MDPI's Open Access book series, Transitioning to Sustainability, which aims to add to the conversation about regional and global sustainable development according to the 17 SDGs.
https://www.mdpi.com/books/edition/1311-transitioning-to-zero-hunger
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Delwendé Innocent Kiba
Delwendé Innocent Kiba, former Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources, is a soil scientist at the Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA) in Burkina Faso. He completed his PhD on Rural Development at the Polytechnic University of Bobo-Dioulasso (UPB) in 2012. Thereafter, he completed a postdoc in the Group of Plant Nutrition at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. From 2014 to 2021, he was the overall coordinator of a project on sustainable soil use in yam systems in West Africa (YAMSYS project). Kiba has co-authored numerous publications on integrated soil fertility management in Africa and has given numerous communications around the world. He has trained numerous students (BSc, Ing., MSc, PhD). In addition to his work as a researcher, he was the general secretary of the Soil Science Society of Burkina Faso from 2014 to 2017 and the president of this society since 2017. Kiba’s research has been distinguished several times, including the scientific prize of the Belgian Development Cooperation in 2007, the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship in 2007, scientific prizes at the Forum of Science Innovation and Technology (FRSIT) in Burkina Faso, finalist at the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) scientific competition in 2010, and a co-recipient of the CSRS-Fond Eremitage award in 2019 for his active participation in partnership research. He is affiliated with the African Academy of Science (2021–2025).