(it's worth pointing out that the UK was recently assessed, in 'Measuring Up', as  currently as having insufficient progress on targets 2.1, 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5, and little or no progress on target 2.2), see, e.g. https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2016/Goal-02/

Please let me know if:

1. you have any programmes that connect with the SDGs, or elements of SDG2, as described above, or examples of programmes or events you've had recently (say in the last 2 years).

2. collections that do or could support SDG 2

if you run programmes, or have collections, about natural heritage, agricultural heritage, growing, bees, then you're already doing this.

3. partnerships that support the realisation of SDG2 

4. you have been using the SDGs at all already (any of them)

5. you're interested in connecting your work with the SDGs (any of them).

6. ideas on how museums are or could support SDGs, especially SDG2.

For example, the 25 Year Plan for Nature is big on improving the state of nature, yet, in the UK, industrial agriculture is currently a very serious threat to wildlife. Museums with natural heritage collections, and/or programmes and collections to do with food, agriculture, sustainability, production and consumption, can all help improve people's understanding and engagement of the links between agriculture, food production and consumption, and wildlife. 

You can think about all this either locally, nationally or globally.

I ask as this is an opportunity to share what you are doing, and to demonstrate to government that museums can have a role to play in this, and many are playing a role already, whether they realise it or not. A number of people have already expressed interest to me in connecting up with this agenda.

If you send me something (doesn't have to be long, a paragraph or two, detailing the activity, and ideally some idea of the reach too in terms of numbers of people). I'll let you see how i include it before sending in the submission, to make sure you're happy with how you're featured.

Please send me this by 1 September; the submission has to be made by 13 September.

Yours,

Henry

Goal 2 states that by 2030 we should end hunger and all forms of malnutrition. This would be accomplished by doubling agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers (especially women and indigenous peoples), by ensuring sustainable food production systems, and by progressively improving land and soil quality. Agriculture is the single largest employer in the world, providing livelihoods for 40% of the global population. It is the largest source of income for poor rural households. Women make up about 43% of the agricultural labor force in developing countries, and over 50% in parts of Asia and Africa. However, women own only 20% of the land.

Other targets deal with maintaining genetic diversity of seeds, increasing access to land, preventing trade restriction and distortions in world agricultural markets to limit extreme food price volatility, eliminating waste with help from the International Food Waste Coalition, and ending malnutrition and undernutrition of children.

Globally, 1 in 9 people are undernourished, the vast majority of whom live in developing countries. Undernutrition causes wasting or severe wasting of 52 million children worldwide,^[25] and contributes to nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five – 3.1 million children per year.^[26]Chronic malnutrition, which affects an estimated 155 million children worldwide, also stunts children's brain and physical development and puts them at further risk of death, disease, and lack of success as adults. ^[25] As of 2017, only 26 of 202 UN member countries are on track to meet the SDG target to eliminate undernourishment and malnourishment, while 20 percent have made no progress at all and nearly 70 percent have no or insufficient data to determine their progress. ^[25]

A report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) of 2013 stated that the emphasis of the SDGs should not be on ending poverty by 2030, but on eliminating hunger and under-nutrition by 2025.^[27] The assertion is based on an analysis of experiences in China, Vietnam, Brazil, and Thailand. Three pathways to achieve this were identified: 1) agriculture-led; 2) social protection- and nutrition- intervention-led; or 3) a combination of both of these approaches.^[27]