A/RES/57/226
Reaffirming that a peaceful, stable and enabling political, social and economic
environment, at both the national and the international levels, is the essential
foundation which will enable States to give adequate priority to food security and
poverty eradication,
Reiterating, as did the Rome Declaration as well as the Declaration of the
World Food Summit: five years later, 7 that food should not be used as an instrument
of political or economic pressure, and reaffirming in this regard the importance of
international cooperation and solidarity, as well as the necessity of refraining from
unilateral measures that are not in accordance with international law and the Charter
of the United Nations and that endanger food security,
Convinced that each State must adopt a strategy consistent with its resources
and capacities to achieve its individual goals in implementing the recommendations
contained in the Rome Declaration and the World Food Summit Plan of Action and,
at the same time, cooperate regionally and internationally in order to organize
collective solutions to global issues of food security in a world of increasingly
interlinked institutions, societies and economies where coordinated efforts and
shared responsibilities are essential,
Stressing the importance of reversing the continuing decline of official
development assistance devoted to agriculture, both in real terms and as a share of
total official development assistance,
1.
Reaffirms that hunger constitutes an outrage and a violation of human
dignity and therefore requires the adoption of urgent measures at the national,
regional and international levels for its elimination;
2.
Also reaffirms the right of everyone to have access to safe and nutritious
food, consistent with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of
everyone to be free from hunger so as to be able fully to develop and maintain their
physical and mental capacities;
3.
Considers it intolerable that there are around 840 million undernourished
people in the world and that every year 36 million people die, directly or indirectly,
as a result of hunger and nutritional deficiencies, most of them women and children,
particularly in developing countries, in a world that already produces enough food
to feed the whole global population, and regrets that this situation at the same time
can generate additional pressures on the environment in ecologically fragile areas;
4.
Welcomes the Declaration of the World Food Summit: five years later,
adopted in Rome on 13 June 2002;7
5.
Encourages all States to take steps with a view to achieving
progressively the full realization of the right to food, including steps to promote the
conditions for everyone to be free from hunger and, as soon as possible, to enjoy
fully the right to food, and to elaborate and adopt national plans to combat hunger;
6.
Stresses the need to make efforts to mobilize and optimize the allocation
and utilization of technical and financial resources from all sources, including
external debt relief for developing countries, and to reinforce national actions to
implement sustainable food security policies;
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the World Food Summit: five years
later, 10-13 June 2002, part one, appendix; see also A/57/499, annex.
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