A/RES/70/223
Agriculture development, food security and nutrition
International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the
Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, 11 the outcome document of the 2010
high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium
Development Goals, 12 the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries
for the Decade 2011–2020, 13 the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA)
Pathway 14 and the outcome document of the special event to follow up efforts made
towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, convened by the President
of the General Assembly on 25 September 2013, 15
Recalling the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012,
entitled “The future we want”, 16
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it ad opted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly
for the full implementation of this Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions —
economic, social and environmental — in a balanced and integrated manner, and to
building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking
to address their unfinished business,
Reaffirming also its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for
Development, which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, supports and complements it, helps to contextualize its means of
implementation targets with concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong
political commitment to address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling
environment at all levels for sustainable development in the spirit of global
partnership and solidarity,
Expressing concern that the multiple and complex causes of the food crises
that occur in different regions of the world, affecting developing countries,
especially net food importers, and their consequences for food security and nutrition
require a comprehensive and coordinated response in the short, medium and long
term by national Governments, civil society and the international community,
reiterating that the root causes of food insecurity and malnutrition are poverty and
inequity, and remaining concerned that excessively volatile food prices pose a
serious challenge to the fight against poverty and hunger and to the efforts of
developing countries to attain food security and improved nutrition and to achieve
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Resolution 63/239, annex.
Resolution 65/1.
13
Report of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Istanbul, Turkey,
9–13 May 2011 (A/CONF.219/7), chap. II.
14
Resolution 69/15, annex.
15
Resolution 68/6.
16
Resolution 66/288, annex.
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