The right to food 2012, para. 16

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Stresses that improving access to productive resources and investment in rural development is essential for eradicating hunger and poverty, in particular in developing countries, including through the promotion of investments in appropriate, small-scale irrigation and water management technologies in order to reduce vulnerability to droughts, as well as in programmes, practices and policies to scale up agroecological approaches, and encourages States and donors, both public and private, to examine and consider ways to integrate, where applicable and according to national contexts, the recommendations contained in the latest report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food in policies and programmes;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Environment
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • N.A.
Year
2012
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OP
Reference
HRC resolution, The right to food (2012), A/HRC/RES/19/7, OP 16.
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OP
Paragraph number
16