with the focus of these goals to leave no one behind addressing environmental concerns must consider inequality and exclusion between men and women the social dimensions of sustainable development the socially constructed differences between men and women are an important dimension of inequality and exclusion and must be tackled to achieve the sdgs more than percent of undernourished or chronically hungry people in the world live in the asiapacific region in rural and urban areas seasonal variability which pushes up the price of staples forces households to spend more of their income on food