ABSTRACT
Sport and food can be potent agents of health, well-being, and community cohesion. However, as both have scaled up, their animating aims and impacts have shifted. The two are instrumentally connected: without adequate food, athletic pursuits are impossible, elite performance unattainable, and fanship impracticable. Thus, the central “zero hunger” aim of Sustainable Development Goal 2 is highly relevant to sport. Sport organizations often address hunger via charity. While these well-intentioned efforts meet immediate need, they do not address the systemic causes of hunger and food insecurity. As a result, they may unintentionally enable hunger to persist. Sport organizations working toward SDG 2 should reorient their efforts toward mutually reinforcing policy advocacy and community-level action. Building on the food citizenship for food security framework, the authors present several recommendations to use their financial resources, public profiles, and political influence to amplify the work of food justice activists who pursue structural change and community empowerment, ultimately replacing hunger with equity.
