A/RES/64/197
United Nations
Distr.: General
25 February 2010
General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 53 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2009
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/64/420/Add.1)]
64/197. Agricultural technology for development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 62/190 of 19 December 2007 on agricultural
technology for development,
Recalling also the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 1 Agenda 21, 2
the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, 3 the Johannesburg
Declaration on Sustainable Development 4 and the Plan of Implementation of the World
Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”), 5
0F
1F
2F
3F
4F
Recalling further the 2005 World Summit Outcome,
6
5F
Recalling its resolution 63/235 of 22 December 2008 on agriculture development
and food security,
Recognizing the work done by the Commission on Sustainable Development,
in particular at its sixteenth and seventeenth sessions, highlighting the thematic
focus on agriculture-related issues, and applauding its call to increase investment in
training research and development, in particular on sustainable practices and
technologies, including agricultural technologies, and to accelerate the transfer and
diffusion of such technologies, information, methods and practices in order to reach
all users, including farmers, women, youth and indigenous people as well as those
in remote rural areas,
Acknowledging the work performed by the High-level Task Force on the
Global Food Security Crisis, established by the Secretary-General in 2008, and the
_______________
1
Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3–14 June
1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and
corrigendum), resolution 1, annex I.
2
Ibid., annex II.
3
Resolution S-19/2, annex.
4
Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August–
4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I, resolution
1, annex.
5
Ibid., resolution 2, annex.
6
See resolution 60/1.
09-47365
*0947365*
Please rec cle
♲