A/RES/72/173
The right to food
Bearing in mind the importance of the Rome Declaration on World Food
Security, the World Food Summit Plan of Action and the Declaration of the World
Food Summit: five years later, adopted in Rome on 13 June 2002, 6
Reaffirming the importance of the recommendations contained in the Voluntary
Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in
the Context of National Food Security, adopted by the Council of the Food and
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 has been recognized as 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 Food 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 endanger 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 are increasing dramatically in some regions in the absence of
urgent, determined and concerted action,
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A/57/499, annex.
E/CN.4/2005/131, annex.
World Health Organization, document EB 136/8, annexes I and II.
See Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document WSFS 2009/2.
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