Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 31
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Reiterating the importance of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, also reiterating the importance, inter alia, of empowering rural women, youth, small-scale farmers, family farmers and livestock farmers, fishers and fish workers as critical agents for enhancing agricultural and rural development and food security and for improving nutrition outcomes, and acknowledging their fundamental contribution to the environmental sustainability and the genetic preservation of agricultural systems and to sustaining productivity on often marginal lands,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Vote
Topic(s)
Environment
Food & Nutrition
Gender
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Youth
Year
2017
Reference
UNGA resolution, Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2017), A/RES/72/238, PP 31.