ReviewFood & nutrition research2021
Unlocking the potential for achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 2 - 'Zero Hunger' - in Africa: targets, strategies, synergies and challenges.
Review in Food & nutrition research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 122 citations in OpenAlex.
- Current trends in household food insecurity, dietary diversity, and stunting among children under five in Asia: a systematic review.Journal of global health · 2025Pooled it
- Seasonality of underweight among infants 1-11 months old in Niger: an exploratory analysis of data from a cluster-randomised trial.BMJ global health · 2025Trial
- Child saliva microbiota and caries: a randomized controlled maternal education trial in rural Uganda.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Article
- Heading toward a famine: modeling seasonality of malnutrition in Yemen, 2018-2023.Journal of public health policy · 2026Article
- Structural and Hormonal Changes Associated With Starvation in Zambian Adult Patients With Esophageal Strictures: A Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Cowpea production systems and determinants of adopting improved cultivars by farmers across western highlands and Sudano Sahelian zones of Cameroon.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Socioeconomic determinants of practical adaptive capacity and food security under climate stress in Western Iran.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Exclosure Enhances Crop Yields and Rural Livelihood Resilience in Northern Ethiopia.Environmental management · 2026Article
- Determinants of animal-source food consumption in children 6-48 months in livestock-keeping households in Narok County, Kenya.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2026Article
- Factors associated with stunting and underweight indices among children 0-3 years in Nairobi, Kenya: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Exploring the possibilities and limitations of climate-smart agriculture for SDG 2 in West Africa.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Review
- Maternal dietary diversity and associated factors among pregnant women visiting public health institutions for antenatal care in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Frontiers in global women's health · 2026Article
- Field outbreak investigation and immunoinformatic analysis suggest potential immune evasion by Newcastle disease virus Sub-Genotype XIV.2 in Nigeria.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- What keeps children small, thin, and weak?: exploring the early childhood impacts of socioeconomic disadvantages in Pakistan.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Article
- Article
- Impact of common interest group participation and aquaculture development programs on fish productivity and net returns: evidence from Nile tilapia farming.Aquaculture international : journal of the European Aquaculture Society · 2025Article
- A Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis of Fertility Decisions and Associated Determinants Among Reproductive Age Women in Somaliland: Utilization of 2020 SLHDS Data.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Household livelihood, diet, and nutritional status of adolescent schoolchildren in Kuyu District, North Shewa, Oromia, Ethiopia.Journal of nutritional science · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundThe UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 ('Zero Hunger') aims to end all forms of hunger and malnutrition by 2030. Thus, a range of different strategies are needed to facilitate the achievement of SDG 2 to overcome challenges and enable synergies between various SDG targets.
objectiveThe aim of this review is to highlight Africa's progress toward SDG 2, including targets, strategies, synergies and challenges.
methodsWe scrutinized published research articles in peer-reviewed journals, UN reports and in-country Africa reports (between 2015 and 2020) that were relevant to the current topic.
resultsSeveral hunger indicators are showing slow progress or even deterioration in Africa. The prevalence of undernourishment in the general population was 19.1% in 2019 and is expected to increase to 25.7% by 2030. Improvements in child stunting in several regions in Africa are slow, especially in sub-Saharan Africa where about 34% of under-fives were stunted in 2012 and 31% in 2019. In Eastern Africa, stunting prevalence decreased from 38% in 2012 to 34% in 2019. Major drivers of hunger are poor governance and state fragility, war and conflicts, increasing inequality, weak economic development, climate change, biodegradation - and now lately the Covid 19 pandemic - factors that all increase food insecurity.
conclusionAfrica is off track to reach SDG - 'Zero Hunger' - by 2030. Current efforts and progress are insufficient. Africa must champion the SDG agenda on a national, regional and global level to facilitate synergies to unlock the potential for reaching 'Zero Hunger' throughout the continent.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.