ABSTRACT

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 aims to “end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture” around the world. The policy environment around food and sustainability including the Habitat III New Urban Agenda and the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact is very dynamic. These initiatives offer the potential to complement the SDGs from the municipal and/or regional scale by adding another layer of governance. When considering gender equality and empowerment (SDG 5) the food and hunger goal becomes far more complicated. Through exploring gender and food from an urban agriculture and an agroecological approach there is great potential to provide sustainably transformative opportunities for linkages within the SDGs as well as policy coherence from the ground up.