Evaluation of FAO’s contributions to Sustainable Development Goal 2
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Meeting the SDG 2 targets to eradicate hunger and malnutrition requires transformational change to policy, legislation and institutional frameworks. Parliaments, therefore, have a vital role to play in establishing the legislative and institutional frameworks needed to foster legislation that will spur policy on and investment in agriculture, food systems and nutrition. This review provides a critical analysis of how FAO’s legal and parliamentarian work on food and nutrition security (FNS) is enhancing its efforts to support countries in achieving the SDG 2 goals.
FAO has been working with national and regional parliamentarians to promote participatory processes that formulate and enact laws on FNS. It has promoted the creation of Parliamentary Fronts Against Hunger, putting the Right to Food high on the political agenda. FAO has taken a twopronged approach to its work: i) supporting the formulation of framework FNS laws that legislate for several sectors more generally and ii) supporting specific sectoral legislation to address certain aspects in more detail. Thus, FAO’s legislative work is not only linked to SDG 2, but has positive ramification for other SDGs.
The review recommends that FAO strengthen its legal and parliamentary capacity with additional financial resources and qualified personnel. It also suggests that FAO could do more to support the monitoring and implementation of laws and policies, become more involved in the process of regulation, as well as in the communication and dissemination of laws and policies, and become more involved in establishing observatories to monitor progress on the Right to Food and FNS.