A/RES/72/215
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 19
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2017
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/72/420)]
72/215.
Agricultural technology for sustainable development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 70/198 of 22 December 2015,
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our
world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for
the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating poverty
in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global
challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions – economic,
social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner, and to building upon
the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking to add ress their
unfinished business,
Reaffirming also its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa Action
Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which
is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, s upports and
complements it, helps to contextualize its means of implementation targets with
concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong political commitment to address
the challenge of financing and creating an enabling environment at all level s for
sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and solidarity,
Welcoming the Zero Hunger Challenge initiative launched by the Secretary General at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development as a vision
for a future free from hunger, and recalling the Rome Declaration on Nutrition,
adopted at the Second International Conference on Nutrition, 1 the Decade of Action
on Nutrition (2016–2025) 2 and the recommendations contained in the report on
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World Health Organization, document EB 136/8, annex I.
See resolution 70/259.
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