Chapter 8 evaluates the challenge of SDG 2: Zero Hunger, which aims to meet the food needs of an increasing global population while safeguarding the food needs of the poor and promoting sustainable agricultural land use. The interaction between rural poverty, natural resource degradation, and food insecurity in developing countries is a vicious cycle. Increasing agricultural production to meet the rising global food demand is constrained by the limited availability of fertile agricultural land suitable for expansion. It requires significant increases in production per unit of agricultural land already in use rather than expanding the land under agricultural production. However, the high costs associated with agricultural intensification make increasing sustainable agricultural production a real challenge. Removing or re-orientating environmentally harmful subsidies in agriculture and identifying new and innovative policies to boost sustainable agricultural intensification is required, especially in developing countries with fragile and limited fertile agricultural land.

This chapter provides a basic introduction to the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and introduces our cognitive-behavioral model of ARFID.Wereturn to the case examples from Chapter 1 to illustrate a cognitive-behavioral understanding of sensory sensitivity, fear of aversive consequences, and lack of interest in eating or food.