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The right to food
urgent funding to respond to the needs of the affected population, and calls upon
Member States and parties to armed conflicts to respect international humanitarian
law and ensure safe and unhindered humanitarian access;
38. Calls upon States to heed the urgent United Nations humanitarian appeal
to assist countries facing drought, starvation and famine with emergency aid and
urgent funding;
39. Invites all relevant international organizations, including the World Bank
and the International Monetary Fund, to continue to promote policies and projects
that have a positive impact on the right to food, to ensure that partners respect the
right to food in the implementation of common projects, to support strategies of
Member States aimed at the fulfilment of the right to food and to avoid any actions
that could have a negative impact on its realization;
40. Takes note with appreciation of the interim report of the Special
Rapporteur, 20 which focuses on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as a
potentially transformative tool to advance the realization of the right to food;
41. Recognizes the importance of giving due consideration to the adverse
impacts of climate change and to the full realization of the right to food, recalls the
Paris Agreement, adopted at the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties
to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Paris from
30 November to 13 December 2015, 21 and also recalls the holding of the twentysecond session of the Conference of the Parties in Marrakech, Morocco, from 7 to
18 November 2016;
42. Also recognizes the impacts of climate change and of the El Niño
phenomenon on agricultural production and food security around the world and the
importance of designing and implementing actions to reduce its effects, in particular
on vulnerable populations, such as rural women, bearing in mind the role that they
play in supporting their households and communities in achieving food and nutrition
security, generating income and improving rural livelihoods and overall well -being;
43. Reiterates its support for the realization of the mandate of the Special
Rapporteur, and requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to provide all the human and financial
resources necessary for its effective fulfilment;
44. Welcomes the work already done by the Committee on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights in promoting the right to adequate food, in particular its general
comment No. 12 (1999) on the right to adequate food (article 11 of the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), 22 in which the Committee
affirmed, inter alia, that the right to adequate food is indivisibly linked to the inherent
dignity of the human person, indispensable for the fulfilment of other human rights
enshrined in the International Bill of Hu man Rights and inseparable from social
justice, requiring the adoption of appropriate economic, environmental and social
policies, at both the national and the international levels, oriented to the eradication
of poverty and the fulfilment of all human rights for all;
45. Recalls general comment No. 15 (2002) of the Committee on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights on the right to water (articles 11 and 12 of the Covenant), 23
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A/74/164.
See FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21, annex.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2000, Supplement No. 2 and
corrigendum (E/2000/22 and E/2000/22/Corr.1), annex V.
Ibid., 2003, Supplement No. 2 (E/2003/22), annex IV.
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