A Review on the Potential of Indigenous Vegetables to Achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2

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Page: 29-32

Sejabaledi A. Rankoana (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Limpopo, South Africa)

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals were developed with the vision to envisage a world free of poverty, hunger, disease, and want where food is sufficient, safe, affordable, and nutritious. This review describes the use of indigenous vegetables to end hunger, and poverty and ensure food security, and promote sustainable agriculture (DSG2). A review of the literature was made to analyse secondary data about the nutritional value of indigenous vegetables, knowledge of their use and propagation potential to ensure food security. The review findings present a description of wild or indigenous vegetables, knowledge of their use, their value in food security, and their importance in expanding and promoting subsistence agricultural production to meet daily household food requirements. However, increased knowledge about the types of edible wild species and their propagation through climate-smart practices adopted to grow and maintain other subsistence crops is suggested to ensure sustainable household food security to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.