Idowu Ajibade*, Michael Egge**, and Arun Pallathadka***
ABSTRACT
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2) contains a global commitment to “end hunger, achieve food security, and promote sustainable agriculture” by 2030. The realization of this goal under the current global political economy, climate change trends, and national realities is a daunting challenge. In this article, we draw on political ecology theory to examine the complex ecological, economic, geopolitical, climatic, and socially-induced barriers that threaten the achievement of SDG 2 in two oil producing countries with a high dependency on food imports: Qatar and Nigeria. First, we provide an overview of barriers to global food security and sustainable agriculture by discussing how the unevenness of power and resource distribution, reduced genetic diversity, land grabs, restrictive property rights, and the control of stable food production by big agri-businesses, all served to undermine hunger reduction and food security in the last 20 years. Second, drawing on.
* Lead author: Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Portland State University, United States of America. Email: jajibade@pdx.edu. ORCID: 0000- 0002-9767-0435
** DepartmentofGeography,PortlandStateUniversity,USA. *** Department of Geography, Portland State University, USA.