A/RES/62/190
United Nations
Distr.: General
11 February 2008
General Assembly
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 54 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2007
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/62/419/Add.1)]
62/190. Agricultural technology for development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 58/218 of 23 December 2003, 59/227 of 22 December
2004, 60/193 of 22 December 2005 and 61/195 of 20 December 2006,
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 as well as the Monterrey Consensus of the International
Conference on Financing for Development, 6
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Reaffirming the commitment to implement Agenda 21, the Programme for the
Further Implementation of Agenda 21, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation,
including the time-bound goals and targets, and the other internationally agreed
development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,
Reaffirming also the goals set in paragraph 19 of the United Nations
Millennium Declaration, 7 to halve poverty and hunger by 2015,
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Reaffirming further that eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge
facing the world today and an indispensable requirement for sustainable
development, particularly for developing countries, and that although each country
has the primary responsibility for its own sustainable development and poverty
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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.
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Ibid., annex II.
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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.
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Ibid., resolution 2, annex.
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Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18-22 March
2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
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See resolution 55/2.
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