SDG 02 – Zero Hunger 2025

DMU contributes to SDG 2 through food relief carried out by its students and staff, through nutrition education delivered by its health students, and through research on diet and food.

Food relief

Ramadan food parcels with the Dubai Food Bank (13 and 19 March 2025) (Link)

Students, faculty and staff, with SALCF and the Dubai Food Bank, packed and distributed food parcels to labour camps across Dubai during Ramadan.

Gaza food packing (15 October 2025) (Link)

115 volunteers packed food aid for Gaza as part of Operation Chivalrous Knight 3.

“10 Million Meals for Gaza” (December 2025) (Link)

The DMU community and their families joined the Mohammed Bin Rashid campaign to prepare ten million meals.

The DMU community preparing meals for Gaza

Healthy eating and food access on campus

In August 2025 DMU licensed two new food outlets on campus — a café and a light-meals kitchen — so that students and staff have affordable meals available throughout the day (QA Hub partnerships register). Students in the hostel also have a shared kitchen to prepare their own food.

Research on food and nutrition (2025)

Redefining reimbursement policies: A novel value framework for medical nutrition — Clinical Nutrition Open Science (DOI)
Impact of high-protein, low-calorie diet on anthropometric indices, glycation, and inflammation associated with the FTO gene among individuals with overweight/obesity — Frontiers in Nutrition (DOI)
Oats and Wheat Bran as Functional Food and Nutraceuticals — Dietary Supplements and Nutraceuticals (DOI)
Quinoline: A Novel Solution for Next-Generation Pesticides, Herbicides, and Fertilizers — Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology (DOI)
Phosphor converted LED technologies as a sustainable lighting strategy to enhance indoor crop growth and agricultural productivity — Discover Sustainability (DOI)

Sources

QA Hub registers (events, partnerships, research, scholarships, enrolment), read 19 October 2026
Scopus (via QA Hub's mirror)
DMU news, dmu.ae