I attended to British School UN club’s presentation on February 24th.
The second goal of SDGs, Zero Hunger, is not the only one thing, end hunger, but also reach food security and enhanced nutrition, and encourage sustainable agriculture. This goal should be solved as soon as possible because it is the basic need of humans. Malnutrition impacts on the various aspects to live. They introduced us to GM crops as one of the solutions to hunger. GMO means Genetic Modified Organism. It works on most causes, political conflict, agricultural production loss, climate change, and population growth, that lead to food insecurity. It can make the amount of the harvest, improve the nutritive value, make the plant grow with not good soil and weather. They listed golden rice as one of the examples of GMOs. According to them, it includes more vitamins than normal rice. They suggested that we give people who we can help assistance, donate food, purchase only food that we need, and volunteer.
They listed several locations that we can attend to volunteer. That the number of locations was bigger than I expected was interesting for me, and I felt that I should do it since there are many opportunities to help hunger.
This research mission was totally related to my research. Hunger negatively affects some aspects because starvation makes people less productive, and it makes them unable to work and make enough money. Not having enough money makes the situation of hunger worsen. Thus, I could reconfirm that we should achieve this goal as soon as we can.
As they also said, the subject of GM crops is controversial because those are modified their DNA, so “Do you think that GM food is a good solution?” is my question after this research mission.
I want to recommend this research mission to anyone who deeply wants to know about hunger.
Yuika Sugawara