Tech Solutions Related To UN SDG 2: Zero Hunger
UN Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger, aims to end hunger and food insecurity and promote sustainable agriculture. Learn more about Hunger in the US in our interactive report. Contact us for insights related to the 25,291 US organizations addressing UN SDG 2.
Discover tech solutions related to malnutrition, food waste, food banks and other key areas of hunger below.
AmpleHarvest.org permanently ends hunger and the waste of locally grown fresh food. Working in 4,200 communities in all 50 states, it uses public awareness and technology to enable America's 62 million home/community gardeners to donate their surplus harvest to one of 8,000 food pantries for the rest of their gardening life. This provides freshly harvested food to food-insecure families.
Bites | Eat With Your Tribe is a social impact mobile app that helps students get affordable homemade meals prepared for them by other students in college/university settings. This same app also helps K-12 teachers bring food literacy through interactive lunch experiences into classrooms to benefit students. We also fund edible food gardens on college/university campuses and K-12 school grounds.
Food drives are one of the most popular forms of giving in the United States. People make billions of food drive donations each year to help more than tens of millions of Americans facing hunger. #GiveHealthy is a movement to change how and what people donate. #GiveHealthy enables people to donate fresh fruits, vegetables and other healthy food by making it easy, fun, and social.
Wexus Technologies, Inc. is focused on one of the great challenges of our time: optimizing our energy, water and food resources in the face of growing populations and climate change. Make your farm more competitive, profitable, & valuable with Wexus’ mission critical IoT technology platform.
Goodr provides a secure ledger that tracks an organization’s surplus food from pickup to donation, delivering real-time social and environmental impact reporting analytics. Goodr's model aims to provide a triple-win solution by improving an organization’s bottom line through charitable tax donations, reducing its greenhouse emissions from landfills and providing surplus food to local communities.
Made for food banks by a food bank. With Fenly, food banks, food pantries, and other anti-hunger nonprofits are able to raise funds with the help of people like you! By donating, setting up a fundraiser, or creating a virtual food drive, you will be able to contribute to the important mission of making sure no one goes hungry in our communities.
Food for All is a marketplace for surplus food, designed to make sure delicious meals are tasted, not wasted. Restaurants post surplus meals on our app at 50% off for pickup during designated times, often an hour before close. As 40% of the food produced in the U.S. is wasted, our mission is to further the zero food waste movement by rewarding businesses and people that take care of our planet.
Benchmark Labs combines grid level weather data with site-based IoT sensors, and uses their proprietary AI software to provide precise asset-located weather forecasting to optimize renewable energy generation & water allocation, reduce spatial basis risk and maximize financial benefits.
We help farmers connect to the supply chain with the Farmer ID app, get proof of their identity and income so they can get loans, help businesses (like coops, exporters, importers, and traders) store & share information about their products, and share that story through the Thank My Farmer™ app when you scan a QR code.