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UN Sustainable Goal 2: Zero Hunger is a complex, multi-faceted topic. As you search, keep an eye out for other terms that might be useful to help you find what you need.
Let's Eat : Sustainable food for a hungry planet by 
The Global Hunger Crisis: tackling food insecurity in developing countries by
Study which identifies the causes for global hunger embedded in the current global political and economic system.
Climate Change and Food Security: adapting agriculture to a warmer world by
Roughly a billion people around the world continue to live in state of chronic hunger and food insecurity. Unfortunately, efforts to improve their livelihoods must now unfold in the context of a rapidly changing climate, in which warming temperatures and changing rainfall regimes could threaten the basic productivity of the agricultural systems on which most of the world's poor directly depend.
The Unending Hunger: tracing women and food insecurity across borders by
Based on ethnographic fieldwork from Santa Barbara, California, this book sheds light on the ways that food insecurity prevails in women's experiences of migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States.
Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City by
This book, by a leading expert in urban agriculture, offers a genuine solution to today's global food crisis. By contributing more to feeding themselves, cities can allow breathing space for the rural sector to convert to more organic sustainable approaches.
Big Hunger: The unholy alliance between corporate America and anti-hunger groups by
What happens when emergency systems like food banks and food pantries become permanent features of American civil society? The author takes a critical look at the business of hunger and offers a new vision for the anti-hunger movement.
Food: A Very Short Introduction by
This book provides a brief history of human food, including aspects of diet, nutrition, and health, and the disparity between malnutrition in some places and overconsumption in others and ends by posing the question: how will it be possible to feed a population of 9 billion in 2050, without destroying our natural environment?
Food Security in the High North: Contemporary Challenges Across the Circumpolar Region by
This book explores the challenges facing food security, sustainability, sovereignty, and supply chains in the Arctic, with a specific focus on Indigenous Peoples.
Food and Poverty: food insecurity and food sovereignty among America's poor by
Food insecurity rates, which skyrocketed with the Great Recession, have yet to fall to pre-recession levels. The poor face a daily choice between paying bills and paying for food.
Black Food Geographies: Race, self-reliance, and food access in Washington, D.C. by
Discusses the structural forces that determine food access in urban areas, highlighting Black residents' navigation of and resistance to unequal food distribution systems and linking these local food issues to the national problem of systemic racism.
Feeding Frenzy: Land grabs, price spikes, and the world food crisis by
Feeding Frenzy traces the history of the global food system and reveals the underlying causes of recent turmoil in food markets.
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Consumed: Food for a finite planet by
In Consumed, Sarah Elton walks fields and farms on three continents, not only investigating the very real threats to our food, but also telling the little-known stories of the people who are working against time to create a new and hopeful future.
The Economics of Sustainable Food: Smart policies for health and the planet by
This book details the true cost of food for people and the planet. It illustrates how to transform our broken system, alleviating its severe financial and human burden. The key is smart macroeconomic policy that moves us toward methods that protect the environment.
Multifunctional Land Uses in Africa: Sustainable Food Security Solutions by
This book presents contemporary case studies of land use, management practices, and innovation in Africa with a view to exploring how multifunctional land uses can alleviate food insecurity and poverty.
Balancing on a Planet: the future of food and agriculture by
This book is an interdisciplinary primer on critical thinking and effective action for the future of our global agrifood system, based on an understanding of the system's biological and sociocultural roots.