A/HRC/RES/55/4 16. Stresses that the primary responsibility of States is to promote and protect the right to food, including in humanitarian emergencies, and that the international community should provide, through a coordinated response and upon request, international cooperation in support of national and regional efforts by providing the assistance necessary to increase food production and access to food, in particular through agricultural development assistance, the transfer of technology, capacity-building, technical assistance, the fulfilment of official development assistance commitments, food crop rehabilitation assistance and food aid, achieving food security, with special attention paid to the specific needs of women and girls, and promoting support for the development of adapted technologies, research on rural advisory services and support for access to financing services, and to ensure support for the establishment of secure land tenure systems; 17. Calls upon States to consider reviewing any policy or measure that could have a negative impact on the realization of the right to food, in particular the right of everyone to be free from hunger, before instituting such a policy or measure; 18. Recalls the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, and acknowledges that many Indigenous organizations and representatives of Indigenous Peoples have expressed in different forums their deep concern over the obstacles and challenges to the full enjoyment of the right to food that Indigenous Peoples face, and calls upon States to take action to address those obstacles and challenges and the continuous discrimination against Indigenous Peoples; 19. Recognizes the contributions of peasants, smallholders, family farmers, other people working and living in rural areas and artisanal and small-scale fishers in all regions of the world to development and in ensuring the right to food, food security and nutrition, which are fundamental to attaining the Sustainable Development Goals and implementing the 2030 Agenda; 20. Stresses that all States should make every effort to ensure that their international policies of a political and economic nature, including international trade agreements and tariff and non-tariff measures, do not have a negative impact on the right to food in other countries; 21. Invites all relevant international organizations, including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, to avoid any actions that could have a negative impact on the realization of the right to food; 22. Encourages the Special Rapporteur on the right to food to continue to take into account the links between human rights and trade policy perspectives, agriculture, artisanal and small-scale fisheries, food systems and global governance, and to cooperate with relevant international organizations to ensure that the international trade regime and the global economic architecture are geared to respecting, protecting and fulfilling the right to food; 23. Also encourages the Special Rapporteur to continue to mainstream a gender perspective in the fulfilment of his mandate, and encourages the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and all other United Nations bodies and mechanisms that address the right to food and food insecurity to integrate and effectively implement a gender perspective in their relevant policies, programmes and activities regarding access to food; 24. Further encourages the Special Rapporteur to continue his collaboration with United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, and international financial institutions, and to facilitate the cooperation among them, in order to contribute to ensuring that the right to food is promoted further within these organizations, in accordance with their mandates, including for the advancement of smallholders, agricultural workers and artisanal and smallscale fishers in both developing and least developed countries; 25. Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to provide all the human and financial resources necessary for the effective fulfilment of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur; 26. Calls upon all Governments to cooperate with and assist the Special Rapporteur by supplying all necessary information requested by the mandate holder, and to 5