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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2018), para. 30
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- 4. Also recognizes the important role of family farming and smallholder farming in contributing to the achievement of food security and improved nutrition and the role that family farms play in ensuring global food security, poverty eradication and environmental sustainability, as well as job creation;
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028) (2018), para. 16
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- Stressing that a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system will promote agriculture, family farming and rural development in developing countries and contribute to world food security and nutrition, and urging the adoption of national, regional and international strategie s to promote the inclusive participation of farmers, especially small-scale and family farmers, including women, in community, national, regional and international markets,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
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United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028) (2018), para. 22
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- Recognizing the importance of South-South and triangular cooperation in promoting family farming and addressing the problem of food insecurity through the exchange of knowledge, experience and good practices, innovative policies, know - how and resources,
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Families
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United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028) (2018), para. 03
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- Welcoming the fact that many countries have made significant progress in developing public policies in favour of family farming, including the formation of national committees for family farming, and making financial inclusion policies for smallholder farmers, such as small-scale credit loans, and recognizing the role that family farms play in improving nutrition and ensuring global food security, eradicating poverty, ending hunger, conserving biodiversity, achieving environmental sustainability and helping to address migration,
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Agriculture development and food security (2013), para. 38
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- 16. Calls for closing the gender gap in access to productive resources in agriculture, noting with concern that the gender gap persists for many assets, inputs and services, and stresses the need to invest in and strengthen efforts to meet the basic needs of rural women, including needs relating to their food and nutritional security and that of their families, and to promote adequate standards of living for them as well as decent conditions for work and access to local, regional and global markets;
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- Economic Rights
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
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Follow-up to the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond (2019), para. 10
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- 2. Encourages Governments to continue their efforts to implement the objectives of the International Year of the Family and its follow-up processes and to develop strategies and programmes aimed at strengthening national capacities to address national priorities relating to family issues and to step up their efforts, in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, to implement those objectives, in particular in the areas of fighting poverty and hunger and ensuring the well-being of all at all ages;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028) (2018), para. 02
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- Recognizing the success of the International Year of Family Farming, declared by the General Assembly in its resolution 66/222 of 22 December 2011 and implemented in 2014, which raised the profile of the role of family farming, pastoralism and smallholder farming in contributing to the achievement of food security and improved nutrition,
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2019), para. 128
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- 3. States shall take appropriate measures to combat malnutrition in rural children, including within the framework of primary health care through, inter alia, the application of readily available technology and the provision of adequate nutritious food and by ensuring that women have adequate nutrition during pregnancy and lactation. States shall also ensure that all segments of society, in particular parents and children, are informed, have access to nutritional education and are supported in the use of basic knowledge on child nutrition and the advantages of breastfeeding.
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- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Women
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2018), para. 26
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- Inviting the United Nations system and all relevant stakeholders to consider ways to make available data and information relating to agriculture and food systems, including meteorology, big data, the Internet of things, satellite imagery, early warning systems and other data-based technologies, that could help to build the resilience of family farmers and smallholder producers, optimize yields and support rural livelihoods,
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2020), para. 30
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- 2. Urges Member States, relevant United Nations organizations and other stakeholders to strengthen efforts to improve the development of sustainable agricultural technologies and their transfer and dissemination under mutually agreed terms to developing countries, especially the least developed countries, in particular at the bilateral and regional levels, and encourages international, regional and national efforts to strengthen capacity and foster the utilization of local know -how in developing countries, especially that of smallholder and family farmers, in particular rural women and youth, in order to enhance the productivity and nutritional quality of food crops and animal products, promote sustainable practices in pre -harvest and post-harvest agricultural activities and enhance food security and nutrition-related programmes and policies that take into consideration the specific needs of women, young children and youth, with particular attention to securing the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, strengthening progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals;
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Women
- Youth
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2018), para. 28
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- 2. Urges Member States, relevant United Nations organizations and other stakeholders to strengthen efforts to improve the development of sustainable agricultural technologies and their transfer and dissemination under mutually agreed terms to developing countries, especially the least developed countries, in particular at the bilateral and regional levels, and encourages international, regional and national efforts to strengthen capacity and foster the utilization of local know -how in developing countries, especially that of smallholder and family farmers, in particular rural women and youth, in order to enhance the productivity and nutritional quality of food crops and animal products, promote sustainable practices in pre -harvest and post-harvest agricultural activities and enhance food security and nutrition-related programmes and policies that take into consideration the specific needs of women, young children and youth, with particular attention to securing the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour;
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- Economic Rights
- Food & Nutrition
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Women
- Youth
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2020), para. 31
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- 3. Recognizes the important role of family farming and smallholder farming in contributing to the achievement of food security and improved nutrition and the role that family farms play in contributing to global food security, poverty eradication and sustainability, as well as job creation, and in ending chronic child malnutrition, and that agricultural technologies should be adapted to the needs of small - and medium-scale family farmers and combined with credit access for sustainable production and significant investment in rural infrastructure as well as the training and education of those who would most benefit from them;
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
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Eradicating rural poverty to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2020), para. 17
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- Welcoming the proclamation of 2019–2028 as the United Nations Decade of Family Farming, to raise the profile of the role of family farming 4 in contributing to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and reaffirming the importance of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016–2025) in the promotion of activities towards the eradication of rural poverty,
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2019), para. 27
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- Welcoming the adoption of its resolution 72/239 of 20 December 2017, in which it proclaimed 2019–2028 the United Nations Decade of Family Farming, which raised the profile of the role of family farming in contributing to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and to the achievement of food security and improved nutrition,
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Follow-up to the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond (2020), para. 10
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- 2. Encourages Governments to continue their efforts to implement the objectives of the International Year of the Family and its follow-up processes and to develop strategies and programmes aimed at strengthening national capacities to address national priorities relating to family issues and to step up their efforts, in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, to implement those objectives, in particular in the areas of fighting poverty and hunger and ensuring the well -being of all at all ages;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Questions relating to informationInformation in the service of humanity (2018), para. 081
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- 52. Also recalls its resolution 72/239 of 20 December 2017 on the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028), and requests the Department of Public Information and its network of United Nations information centres to raise awareness of and to disseminate information on the International Decade;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Global health and foreign policy: a healthier world through better nutrition (2019), para. 30
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- Welcoming the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028), and in this regard encouraging the full implementation of its resolution 72/239 of 20 December 2017, in which it recognized the role that family farms play in improving nutrition and ensuring global food security, eradicating poverty, ending hunger, conserving biodiversity, achieving environmental sustainability and helping to address migration,
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Implementation of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016–2025) (2018), para. 08
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- Recognizing the important contribution that family farming and smallholder farming can play in providing food security and eradicating poverty in the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals,
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Poverty
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- Families
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2020), para. 36
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- 8. Invites the United Nations system and all relevant stakeholders to consider ways to make available, on mutually agreed terms, data and information relating to agriculture and food systems, including meteorology, big data, the Internet of things, satellite imagery, early warning systems and other data-based technologies, that could help to build the resilience of family farmers and smallholder producers, optimize yields and support rural livelihoods;
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2018), para. 61
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- 23. Stresses the importance of the application of science, technology and innovation and related knowledge management and communications systems in ensuring food security by 2030, and encourages the adoption of the most advanced and appropriate information technology, such as the Internet, mobile platforms, meteorology, big data and cloud computing, in agriculture systems in order to support the efforts of smallholder and family farmers to increase their resilience, productivity and incomes and include them in the development of research and innovation agendas;
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Global health and foreign policy: a healthier world through better nutrition (2019), para. 48
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- 6. Also encourages Member States to develop health- and nutrition- promoting environments, including through nutrition education in schools and other education institutions, as appropriate, and to scale up community-based actions that support children and families, through the promotion of maternal health and recommended infant feeding practices such as breastfeeding;
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- Education
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2020), para. 25
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- Recalling also its resolution 72/239 of 20 December 2017, in which it proclaimed 2019–2028 the United Nations Decade of Family Farming, which raises the profile of the role of family farming in contributing to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and to the achievement of food security and improved nutrition,
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Follow-up to the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond (2018), para. 10
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- 2. Encourages Governments to continue to make every possible effort to realize the objectives of the International Year of the Family and its follow-up processes and to develop strategies and programmes aimed at strengthening national capacities to address national priorities relating to family issues and to step up their efforts, in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, to implement those objectives, in particular in the areas of fighting poverty and hunger and ensuring the well -being of all at all ages;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2020), para. 44
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- Noting the importance of initiatives under the United Nations system, including the observance of World Pulses Day, World Tuna Day, Sustainable Gastronomy Day, World Bee Day, World Food Safety Day, World Soil Day, the International Year of Camelids, the International Year of Plant Health, the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018–2028, and the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028), aimed at increasing public awareness of relevant agriculture, food security and nutritional benefits, in accordance with General Assembly resolutions 53/199 of 15 December 1998 and of 20 December 2006 on the proclamation of international years and Economic and Social Council resolution 1980/67 of 25 July 1980 on international years and anniversaries,
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2020), para. 78
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- 29. Stresses the importance of the application of science, technology and innovation and related knowledge management and communications systems in ensuring food security by 2030, and encourages the adoption of the most advanced and appropriate information technology, such as the Internet, mobile platforms, meteorology, big data and cloud computing, in agriculture systems in order to support the efforts of smallholder and family farmers to increase their resilience, productivity and incomes and include them in the development of research and innovation agendas while reducing negative environmental impacts;
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028) (2018), para. 20
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- Conscious that climate change represents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet, that it is seriously affecting agriculture throughout the world and that supporting family farming could contribute to combating climate change as well as to increasing the ability to adapt to its adverse impacts and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development in a manner that does not threaten food production,
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2019), para. 76
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- 25. Stresses the importance of the application of science, technology and innovation and related knowledge management and communications systems in ensuring food security by 2030, and encourages the adoption of the most advanced and appropriate information technology, such as the Internet, mobile platforms, meteorology, big data and cloud computing, in agriculture systems in order to support the efforts of smallholder and family farmers to increase their resilience, productivity and incomes and include them in the development of research and innovation agendas;
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Global health and foreign policy: an inclusive approach to strengthening health systems (2020), para. 65
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- 20. Encourages Member States to develop health- and nutrition-promoting environments, including through nutrition education in schools and other education institutions, as appropriate, and to scale up community-based actions that support children and families, through the promotion of maternal health and recommended infant feeding practices such as breastfeeding;
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- Education
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
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