A/RES/69/221
United Nations
Distr.: General
12 February 2015
General Assembly
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 19 (e)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2014
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/69/468/Add.5)]
69/221. Implementation of the United Nations Convention to
Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing
Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly
in Africa
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 68/213 of 20 December 2013, as well as other
resolutions relating to the implementation of the United Nations Convention to
Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or
Desertification, Particularly in Africa, 1
Recalling also the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, 2 in which the Conference,
inter alia, recognized the economic and social significance of good land
management, including soil, particularly its contribution to economic growth,
biodiversity, sustainable agriculture and food security, eradicating poverty, women’s
empowerment, addressing climate change and improving water availability, stressed
that desertification, land degradation and drought are challenges of a global
dimension that continue to pose serious challenges to the sustainable development
of all countries, in particular developing countries, also stressed the particular
challenges this poses for Africa, the least developed countries and the landlocked
developing countries, expressed deep concern at the devastating consequences of
cyclical drought and famine in Africa, in particular in the Horn of Africa and the
Sahel region, and called for urgent action through short-, medium- and long-term
measures at all levels,
Recalling further that the United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development recognized the need for urgent action to reverse land degradation and,
in view of this, for striving to achieve a land-degradation-neutral world in the
context of sustainable development, which should act to catalyse financial resources
from a range of public and private sources,
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1954, No. 33480.
Resolution 66/288, annex.
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