Sustainable Development Goal 2
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Learn how UVic advanced SDG 2 during 2023
On this page you can get a glimpse of the great work done by the campus community to advance SDG 2 during 2023, centred around the key areas of the university:
Education & student experience
SDG 2 in action at Co-op
Co-op and Career Services supports SDG 2 by offering paid work experiences that help students build careers while reducing financial barriers. Among those experiences, students participate in food and agricultural related activities.
Student Society food bank
The & Free Store offers free access to food essentials, supporting UVic students facing food insecurity. It provides a variety of perishable and non-perishable foods, personal hygiene supplies, and information about additional resources in Victoria.
Community Cabbage
The is a student organization at UVic, serving free weekly hot meals to the campus community prepared from reclaimed food – edible but unsellable food donated by grocery stores. Anyone is welcome to come, cook and eat.
Community Food Market
The Community Food Market program ran by UVic Family Centre, provides free food to students living on and off campus. It is supported by the Living Edge, the Food Share Network, volunteers and the Family Centre staff.
Research
FACULTY MEMBERS PUBLISHED ON SDG 2
Scopus/Elsevier 2019–23JOURNAL ARTICLES ON SDG 2
Scopus/Elsevier 2019–23CITATIONS OF SDG 2 RESEARCH
Scopus/Elsevier 2019–23
Four Stories about food
The Four Stories About Food Sovereignty project is a UVic-led, transnational effort to document community responses to climate change, global economic pressures and political instability through the lens of small-scale food producers on four continents.
Supporting Rural and Remote Economies
Dr. in Canada by addressing infrastructure deficits, economic disparity, the impact of climate change, and Indigenous rights in economic development.
Ecogastronomy research
The involves the comprehensive study of food and wine production, using quantitative data and empirical evidence to unravel the complex ways in which agricultural practices influence the environment and society.
Food nutrition and health
conducts research on Global, First Nations, and Inuit health, community food security, nutrition-related non-communicable diseases, food systems and environments, ecological determinants of health, climate change and health, and environmental contaminants in food sources.
Community & campus operations
UVic campus community garden
The directly advances SDG 2 by managing an urban agriculture and permaculture space on campus, hosting free educational workshops and events, and renting plots, some of them dedicated to growing food to be donated to the UVSS food bank
Sustainable campus dining
UVic´s Food Services advances SDG 2 by operating sustainable practices, such as offering Ocean Wise certified products, composting and recycling, promoting reusables, offering compostable disposables containers, and prioritising local suppliers and ingredient.
Tackling student hunger
Food survey
The UVic food survey advances SDG 2 by addressing food security and affordability on campus, gathering feedback on food quality, affordability and sustainability. It led to immediate improvements, such as adding a value-priced menu, expanding the Meal Share Program, and introducing more accessible, affordable food options.
Policy & policy-making
Default-vegetarian food project
The proposes the ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø serves >60% plant-based meals as a solution to reduce food systems emissions for climate change, and benefit campus and environmental health.
Sustainable food policies
UVic advances SDG 2 by implementing affordable and nutritious Meal Plans and other sustainable food practices such as prioritizing local first partnerships & food suppliers, and introducing sustainability programs that encourage customer participation.
Tackling Food insecurity in Canada
Dr. Mathew Little from the School of Public Health and Social Policy suggests in the long term.
Events