A/RES/71/191
The right to food
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in November 2004, 7 as well as the
Rome Declaration on Nutrition and the Framework for Action, adopted in Rome on
21 November 2014, 8
Acknowledging that the right to food is the right of every individual, alone or
in community with others, to have physical and economic access at all times to
sufficient, adequate, nutritious food, in conformity with, inter alia, the culture,
beliefs, traditions, dietary habits and preferences of individuals, that is produced and
consumed sustainably, thereby preserving access to food for future generations,
Reaffirming the Five Rome Principles for Sustainable Global Food Security
contained in the Declaration of the World Summit on Fo od Security, adopted in
Rome on 16 November 2009, 9
Reaffirming also that all human rights are universal, indivisible,
interdependent and interrelated and that they must be treated globally, in a fair and
equal manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis,
Reaffirming further that a peaceful, stable and enabling political, social and
economic environment, at both the national and the international levels, is the
essential foundation that will enable States to give adequate priority to food and
nutrition security and poverty eradication,
Reiterating, as set out in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security, the
Declaration of the World Food Summit and the Rome Declaration on Nutrition, that
food should not be used as an instrument of political or economic pressure, and
reaffirming in this regard the importance of international cooperation and solidarity,
as well as the necessity of refraining from unilateral measures that are not in
accordance with international law and the Charter and that endan ger food and
nutrition security,
Convinced that each State must adopt a strategy consistent with its resources
and capacities to achieve its individual goals in implementing the recommendations
contained in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the World Food
Summit Plan of Action, as well as in the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and the
Framework for Action, and, at the same time, cooperate regionally and
internationally in order to organize collective solutions to global issues of food and
nutrition security in a world of increasingly interlinked institutions, societies and
economies where coordinated efforts and shared responsibilities are essential,
Recognizing that, despite the efforts made and the fact that some positive
results have been achieved, the problems of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition
have a global dimension, that there has not been sufficient progress in reducing
hunger and that these problems could increase dramatically in some regions unless
urgent, determined and concerted action is taken,
Recognizing also the complex character of the global food crisis, in which the
right to adequate food has been threatened to be violated on a substantial scale, as a
combination of several major factors, such as the effects of the gl obal financial and
economic crisis, environmental degradation, desertification and the impacts of
global climate change, as well as natural disasters and the lack in many countries of
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7
E/CN.4/2005/131, annex.
World Health Organization, document EB 136/8, annexes I and II.
9
See Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document WSFS 2009/2.
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