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Accelerating progress towards the Zero Hunger Goal in cross-boundary climate change hotspots
The most recent 2017 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals progress report
highlighted the need to accelerate the pace of progress in order for the Sustainable Development
Goals to be fully achieved. Responding to these concerns, the present commen
tary proposes four
distinct, but interrelated approaches to accelerate the Zero Hunger
G
oal in transboundary climate
change hotspots, regions which suffer from multiple stressors and vulnerabilities, and in which
prevalence of food insecurity and malnutrition often remains disproportionately high. These
conceptual, programmatic and policy approaches are discussed drawing from a newly developed
conceptual framework and referring to specific examples from climate change hotspots around the
world