A/RES/72/215 Agricultural technology for sustainable development nutrition and food systems of the High-level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition, adopted at the forty-fourth session of the Committee on World Food Security, 3 Recalling the adoption of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns by the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012, 4 Welcoming the Paris Agreement 5 and its early entry into force, encouraging all its parties to fully implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 6 that have not yet done so to deposit their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where ap propriate, as soon as possible, Welcoming also the outcome of the forty-fourth session of the Committee on World Food Security, held in Rome from 9 to 13 October 2017, 7 taking note of the Committee’s voluntary Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems, 8 and recalling its Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security, 9 Expressing concern about the rise in global hunger, which affected 815 million people in 2016, Welcoming the Sendai Declaration and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, adopted at the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, 10 Welcoming also the progress made in operationalizing the Technology Facilitation Mechanism, and welcoming further the progress made in operationalizing the Technology Bank for the Least Developed Countries, and encouraging continued support, Recalling relevant strategies and programmes of action, including the Istanbul Declaration and Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020, 11 the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway, 12 and the Vienna Declaration and Vienna Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024, 13 reaffirming the importance of supporting the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the programme of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, 14 and recognizing the major challenge to the achievement of durable peace and sustainable development in countries in conflic t and post-conflict situations, Welcoming the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in Quito from __________________ Committee on World Food Security, document CFS 2017/44/INF/16. A/CONF.216/5, annex. 5 Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21. 6 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822. 7 See Committee on World Food Security, document CFS 2017/44/Report. 8 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document C 2015/20, appendix D. 9 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document CL 144/9 (C 2013/20), appendix D. 10 Resolution 69/283, annexes I and II. 11 Report of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Istanbul, Turkey, 9–13 May 2011 (A/CONF.219/7), chaps. I and II. 12 Resolution 69/15, annex 13 Resolution 69/137, annexes I and II. 14 A/57/304, annex. 3 4 2/7 17-23284