A/HRC/RES/34/12 has the primary responsibility for ensuring the implementation of national programmes and strategies in this regard; 36. 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, and underlines that if no immediate response is received, an estimated 20 million people, most of whom are women and children, risk losing their lives; 37. 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; 38. Calls upon the private sector, including transnational corporations, to support investment and innovation, recognizing women’s economic empowerment, to help to, inter alia, increase the participation of small-scale farmers in markets and agriculture food chains; 39. Encourages the Special Rapporteur to continue her collaboration with relevant international organizations and United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, in particular the Rome-based ones, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food Programme, in order to contribute to ensuring that the right to food is promoted further within these organizations, in accordance with their respective mandates, including for the advancement of smallholders and agricultural workers in both developing and least developed countries; 40. Underlines the importance of effective remedies for violations of the right to food; 41. Invites States to promote practices that minimize potential health and environmental risks associated with pesticides, while ensuring their effective use; 42. Encourages farmers to adopt agricultural production practices that enhance biodiversity and soil fertility, and to adopt measures such as crop rotation, cover crops, low till, integrated pest management and crop selection appropriate for local conditions; 43. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Special Rapporteur;2 44. Supports the fulfilment of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur, as established by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 6/2 of 27 September 2007; 45. Requests the Special Rapporteur, as part of the mandate, to continue to monitor the evolution of the world food crisis and, in the context of the mandate and regular reports, to keep the Human Rights Council informed of the impact of the crisis on the enjoyment of the right to food and to alert it to possible further actions in this regard; 46. 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 the continuation of the effective fulfilment of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur; 47. Calls upon all Governments to cooperate with and assist the Special Rapporteur in her task by supplying all necessary information requested by the mandate holder, and to give serious consideration to responding favourably to the requests of the 2 8 A/HRC/34/48.