A/HRC/RES/28/10
National Food Security, adopted by the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations in November 2004,
Acknowledging that the right to food is the right of every individual, alone or in
community with others, to have physical and economic access at all times to sufficient,
adequate and culturally acceptable food that is produced and consumed sustainably,
preserving access to food for future generations,
Reaffirming the Five Rome Principles for Sustainable Global Food Security
contained in the Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security,
Reaffirming also that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and
interrelated, and that they must be treated globally, in a fair and equal manner, on the same
footing and with the same emphasis,
Reaffirming further that a peaceful, stable and enabling political, social and
economic environment, at both the national and international levels, is the essential
foundation that will enable States to give adequate priority to food security and poverty
eradication,
Reiterating, as in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the Declaration
of the World Food Summit: five years later, 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 on World Food Security 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,
Reaffirming that food security is a national responsibility and that any plan for
addressing food security challenges must be nationally articulated, designed, owned and
led, and built on consultation with all key stakeholders, and recognizing the commitment to
strengthening the multilateral system in the channelling of resources and in the promotion
of policies dedicated to fighting hunger and malnutrition,
Recognizing that, despite the efforts made, the problems of hunger, food insecurity
and malnutrition have a global dimension and that there has been insufficient progress
made in reducing hunger, and that they could increase dramatically in some regions unless
urgent, determined and concerted action is taken,
Recognizing also the complex character of the global food crisis, in which the right
to food is threatened to be violated on a substantial scale, as a combination of several major
factors, such as the global financial and economic crisis, environmental degradation,
desertification and the impact of global climate change, as well as natural disasters and the
lack of development in many countries and transfer of relevant technology to address this
issue, particularly in developing countries, least developed countries and small island and
vulnerable developing States, that are having a negative impact on the realization of the
right to food, in particular in the said countries,
Convinced that the elimination of the current distortions in the agricultural trading
system will allow local producers and poor farmers to compete and to sell their products,
thereby facilitating the realization of the right to adequate food,
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