• NLP offers powerful opportunities to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)-including SDG2 (Zero Hunger). • In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, mounting climate change impacts, and other crises in the 2020s, global food security has suffered and progress towards meeting SDG2 has lagged. • Urgent action, backed by evidence-based policymaking, is needed to reverse this trend.

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  • Natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI) are emerging as key tools for advancing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 2-Zero Hunger. By mining vast data sets, these technologies can identify food‑security gaps, forecast supply disruptions, and support evidence‑based policy decisions. Recent crises-including the COVID‑19 pandemic, the Russia‑Ukraine war, and escalating climate impacts-have weakened global food security and stalled progress toward SDG 2. Policymakers now face an urgent need to harness AI‑driven insights to reverse this trend and accelerate the implementation of effective, data‑backed interventions.

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