A/RES/67/228
Agriculture development and food security
Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020, 11 as well as its resolutions 65/178
of 20 December 2010 and 66/220 of 22 December 2011,
Recalling further the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012,
entitled “The future we want”, 12
Recalling its resolutions 66/221 of 22 December 2011 on the International
Year of Quinoa, 2013, and 66/222 of 22 December 2011 on the International Year of
Family Farming, 2014,
Expressing concern that the multiple and complex causes of the food crises
that occur in different regions of the world, affecting developing countries,
especially net food importers, and their consequences for food security and nutrition
require a comprehensive and coordinated response in the short, medium and long
term by national Governments and the international community, reiterating that the
root causes of food insecurity are poverty and inequity, and remaining concerned
that excessively volatile food prices pose a serious challenge to the fight against
poverty and hunger and to the efforts of developing countries to attain food security
and nutrition and to achieve the objective of reducing by half the proportion of
undernourished people no later than 2015, as well as other internationally agreed
development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,
Recalling the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the World Food
Summit Plan of Action, the Declaration of the World Food Summit: five years
later, 13 including the goal of achieving food security for all through an ongoing
effort to eradicate hunger in all countries, with an immediate view to reducing by
half the proportion of undernourished people no later than 2015, as well as the
commitment to achieving the goals set out in paragraph 19 of the United Nations
Millennium Declaration, 14
Noting with appreciation the work undertaken by relevant international bodies
and organizations, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food
Programme, on agricultural development and on enhancing food security and
nutrition,
Welcoming national, regional and international initiatives and commitments
aimed at improving food security and nutrition,
Recalling the commitments made to achieve global food security and to
provide adequate and predictable resources through bilateral and multilateral
channels, including the financial and policy commitments set out in the L’Aquila
Food Security Initiative, and noting with appreciation the launch of the New
Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, which aims to accelerate the flow of
private capital to African agriculture, take to scale new technologies and other
innovations that can increase sustainable agricultural production and productivity
and reduce the risk borne by vulnerable economies and communities in Africa,
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11
Report of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Istanbul, Turkey,
9–13 May 2011 (A/CONF.219/7), chap. II.
12
Resolution 66/288, annex.
13
A/57/499, annex.
14
Resolution 55/2.
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