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the Context of National Food Security, adopted by the Council of the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in November 2004, 7
Reaffirming also the Five Rome Principles for Sustainable Global Food
Security contained in the Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security,
adopted in Rome on 16 November 2009, 8
Reaffirming further 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 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 security and
poverty eradication,
Reiterating, as in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the
Declaration of the World Food Summit: five years later, 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 of the United Nations and that endanger food
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 and, at the same time, cooperate regionally and
internationally in order to organize collective solutions to global issues of food
security in a world of increasingly interlinked institutions, societies and economies
where coordinated efforts and shared responsibilities are essential,
Recognizing that the complex character of the global food crisis, in which the
right to adequate food is threatened to be violated on a massive scale, is a
combination of several major factors, such as the global 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 the appropriate
technology, investment and capacity-building necessary to confront its impact,
particularly in developing countries, least developed countries and small island
developing States,
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
global food crisis,
Expressing its deep concern at the number and scale of natural disasters,
diseases and pests and their increasing impact in recent years, which have resulted
in massive loss of life and livelihood and threatened agricultural production and
food security, in particular in developing countries,
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7
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the Council of FAO, One Hundred
and Twenty-seventh Session, Rome, 22–27 November 2004 (CL 127/REP), appendix D; see also
E/CN.4/2005/131, annex.
8
See Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document WSFS 2009/2.
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