The right to food
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the appropriate technology, investment and capacity-building necessary to confront
its impact, particularly in developing countries, least developed countries and small
island developing States, and the need for coherence and collaboration between
international institutions at the global level,
Resolved to act to ensure that the human rights perspective is taken into
account at the national, regional and international levels in measures to address the
realization of the right to food,
Stressing the possible benefits of international trade to improve food and
nutrition availability,
Stressing also that improving access to productive resources and investment in
rural development is essential for eradicating hunger and poverty, in particular in
developing countries, through, inter alia, the promotion of investments in
appropriate small-scale irrigation and water management technologies in order to
reduce vulnerability to droughts and tackle water scarcity, as well as in programmes,
practices and policies to scale up agroecological approaches,
Expressing its deep concern at the number and scale of natural disasters,
diseases and pest infestations, as well as the negative impact of climate change, and
their increasing impact in recent years, which have resulted in substantial loss of life
and livelihood and threatened agricultural production and food and nutrition
security, in particular in developing countries,
Expressing its deep concern also over the negative effects of armed conflicts
on the enjoyment of the right to food,
Emphasizing that a multisectoral approach that integrates nutrition across all
sectors, including agriculture, health, water and sanitation, social protection and
education, as well as a gender perspective, is critical to achieving global food and
nutrition security and the realization of the right to food,
Recalling the endorsement of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible
Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National
Food Security 10 by the Committee on World Food Security at its thirty-eighth
session, held on 11 May 2012, and by the Council of the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations at its 144th session,
Recalling also the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and
Food Systems, 11 which were endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security at
its forty-first session, held from 13 to 18 October 2014,
Stressing the importance of the Second International Conference on Nutrition,
hosted by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Or ganization
of the United Nations in Rome from 19 to 21 November 2014, and of its outcome
documents, the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and the Framework for Action,
Stressing also the need to increase official development assistance devoted to
agriculture, both in real terms and as a share of total official development
assistance,
Recognizing the importance of the protection and preservation
agrobiodiversity in guaranteeing food security and the right to food for all,
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document CL 144/9 (C 2013/20), appendix D.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document C 2015/20, appendix D.
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