Goal 2: Zero Hunger
Goal: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture
UGA is working to address UN Sustainable Development Goals through focused research, teaching, service, and stewardship on campus, across the state, and around the globe. Some examples of how students, faculty, and staff are addressing Goal #2 are listed below.
USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut Research is part of the U.S. government’s strategy to fight hunger and poverty around the world. Through the Peanut Innovation Lab and approximately two dozen other Innovation Labs, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) utilizes the expertise of top U.S. universities to solve food production, storage, processing, and marketing challenges that prevent partner countries from producing enough food.
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Integrative, Precision Agriculture Research
The University of Georgia is a pioneering integrative, precision agricultural techniques and technologies to maximize crop yields while minimizing inputs of water and fertilizer. The goal is to feed a growing population while sustaining the natural resources we all depend on.
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Campus Kitchen at UGA
A program of the UGA Office of Service-Learning, Campus Kitchen at UGA exists to spotlight sustainable solutions to hunger and food waste and to showcase a mutually beneficial University-community partnership. Through Campus Kitchen, student leaders and volunteers transform unused food from grocery stores and fresh produce from UGArden, UGA's student community farm, into nutritious meals and groceries that are delivered to older adults and human service agencies in Athens, Georgia.
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Food Product Innovation and Commercialization Center
The FoodPIC Center is internationally recognized for the development of innovative food products and for the implementation of cutting-edge science and technology. It works to assist companies in developing new food products efficiently and economically and with high probability of success.
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