E/2021/25 E/CN.9/2021/6 4. Calls upon Governments to take concrete measures towards the full and effective implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the key actions for its further implementation, as well as the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which are integrally linked to global efforts to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions, respect human rights, including the right to development, and fundamental freedoms, reduce inequalities within and among countries, and achieve sustainable development, and stresses that population dynamics are all important for development, including for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 27 and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development; 28 5. Emphasizes that the promotion of sustainable food systems and agricultural production and fishing, including agroecological practices and other innovative approaches, food security, nutrition and food safety are key elements for the eradication of poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including the feminization of poverty, and calls for greater efforts, including through the mobilization, from all sources, of financial and technical assistance, to transform food systems to make them more sustainable and resilient to achieve food security in developing countries, especially focusing efforts in support of family farming and small and medium producers, including fishers and fish workers, as well as to accelerate and scale up action, as appropriate, to strengthen the resilience and adaptive capacity of food systems and people’s livelihoods in order to respond to the adverse impacts of climate change and to achieve a world without hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030 and contribute to the implementation of all Sustainable Development Goals; 6. Recognizes that sustainable food systems have a fundamental role to play in promoting healthy diets and improving nutrition and preventing and controlling non-communicable diseases, in particular diet-related non-communicable diseases, ensuring healthy growth, strengthening immune systems and improving cognitive development, and welcomes the formulation and implementation of national sustainable development-aligned strategies and gender-sensitive policies aimed at eradicating malnutrition in all its forms and transforming food systems so as to make nutritious diets, including traditional healthy diets, available to all, while reaffirming that health, water and sanitation systems must be strengthened simultaneously to end malnutrition; 7. Urges Governments to ensure equal opportunities for, and promote gender equality and empowerment of, women and girls in leadership and policy decision making, supporting women, especially in rural contexts, and calls for closing the gender gap in access to productive resources in agriculture, noting with conc ern that the gender gap persists with respect to many assets, inputs and services, and stresses the need to invest in and strengthen efforts to support the empowerment of all women and girls, in particular those living in rural settings, to address their own food and nutritional needs and those of their families and to develop their farming businesses to increase the chances of a demographic dividend, to promote adequate standards of living for them, as well as decent work, to ensure equal pay for equal wor k, and to ensure to the maximum extent possible their personal health, well-being and security, equal access to inheritance, property rights, land and natural resources and access to affordable, low-cost, long-term loans and to local, regional and global markets, taking into account that the prevalence of food insecurity puts the health and lives of women and children at risk; __________________ 27 28 16/32 General Assembly resolution 70/1. General Assembly resolution 69/313, annex. 21-06093