A/RES/68/233
Agriculture development, food security and nutrition
for the Decade 2011–2020 11 and the outcome document of the special event to
follow up efforts made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals,
convened by the President of the General Assembly on 25 September 2013, 12
Recalling the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012,
entitled “The future we want”, 13
Noting the processes agreed upon at the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, which are now under way, in particular the Open
Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals and the Intergovernmental
Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing, as well as the process
to develop options for a technology facilitation mechanism,
Recalling its resolutions 66/221 of 22 December 2011 on the International
Year of Quinoa, 2013, and 66/222 of 22 December 2011 on the International Year of
Family Farming, 2014,
Expressing concern that the multiple and complex causes of the food crises
that occur in different regions of the world, affecting developing countries,
especially net food importers, and their consequences for food security and nutrition
require a comprehensive and coordinated response in the short, medium and long
term by national Governments, civil society and the international community,
reiterating that the root causes of food insecurity and undernutrition are poverty and
inequity, and remaining concerned that excessively volatile food prices pose a
serious challenge to the fight against poverty and hunger and to the efforts of
developing countries to attain food security and improved nutrition and to achieve
the objective of reducing by half the proportion of undernourished people no later
than 2015, as well as other internationally agreed development goals, including the
Millennium Development Goals,
Recalling the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the Plan of
Action of the World Food Summit, the Declaration of the World Food Summit: five
years later, 14 including the goal of achieving food security for all through an
ongoing effort to eradicate hunger in all countries, with an immediate view to
reducing by half the proportion of undernourished people no later than 2015, as well
as the commitment to achieving the goals set out in paragraph 19 of the United
Nations Millennium Declaration, 15
Noting with appreciation the work undertaken by relevant international bodies
and organizations, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food
Programme, on agricultural development and on enhancing food security and
improving nutrition outcomes,
Welcoming national, regional and international initiatives and commitments
aimed at improving agriculture development, food security and nutrition,
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11
Report of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Istanbul, Turkey,
9–13 May 2011 (A/CONF.219/7), chap. II.
12
Resolution 68/6.
13
Resolution 66/288, annex.
14
A/57/499, annex.
15
Resolution 55/2.
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