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World Tuna Day (2016), para. 4
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- Noting also that many countries depend heavily on tuna resources for food security and nutrition, economic development, employment, government revenue, livelihoods, culture and recreation,
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World Soil Day and International Year of Soils (2014), para. 13
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- 4. Invites the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, mindful of the provisions contained in the annex to Economic and Social Council resolution 1980/67, and within the framework of the Global Soil Partnership, to facilitate the implementation of the Day and the Year, in collaboration with Governments, the secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 7 and other relevant regional and international organizations, civil society and the general public, and also invites the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to keep the General Assembly informed of the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution, including on the evaluation of the Day and the Year;
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World Pulses Day (2019), para. 11
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- Affirming the need to continue to heighten public awareness of the nutritional benefits of eating a variety of food, including pulses, and affirming also the contribution of pulses to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda and the need to further promote sustainable agriculture,
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- Equality & Inclusion
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World Pulses Day (2019), para. 10
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- Recalling that health organizations recommend a healthy diet, which may include pulses, to optimize nutrition as well as to help prevent and manage such chronic diseases as obesity, diabetes, coronary conditions and cancer,
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World Food Summit: five years later (2003), para. 7
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- 3. Requests all relevant organizations of the United Nations system, in particular the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Food Programme and the International Fund For Agricultural Development, as well as the international and regional financial institutions, to pursue, at the global, regional and country levels, the implementation of the outcome of the World Food Summit: five years later in the context of the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, in particular the goals of halving the levels of hunger and absolute poverty by 2015, and in the context of relevant follow-up to the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, the International Conference on Financing for Development and the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
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World Food Summit: five years later (2003), para. 6
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- 2. Urges Member States to implement in a coordinated manner and in close cooperation with relevant bodies of the United Nations system, as well as international and regional financial institutions, the Declaration of the World Food Summit: five years later — International Alliance against Hunger; 2
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World Food Safety Day (2019), para. 12
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- 3. Invites the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization, the parent organizations of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, to jointly facilitate the observance of World Food Safety Day, in collaboration with other relevant organizations, mindful of the provisions contained in the annex to Economic and Social Council resolution 1980/67 ;
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- Food & Nutrition
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World Food Safety Day (2019), para. 10
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- Acknowledging that promoting sustainable agriculture can contribute to food safety,
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- Equality & Inclusion
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World Food Safety Day (2019), para. 08
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- Recalling the leading role of the Codex Alimentarius Commission of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization in setting international food standards to protect the health of consumers and in ensuring fair practices in the food trade, and the leading role of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization in providing capacity-building to countries to implement food safety systems,
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World Food Safety Day (2019), para. 07
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- Cognizant of the urgent need to raise awareness at all levels and to promote and facilitate actions for global food safety, on the basis of scientific principles, in line with the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures of the World Trade Organization,
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- Food & Nutrition
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World Food Safety Day (2019), para. 05
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- Noting also that improving food safety contributes positively to trade, employment and poverty alleviation,
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- Economic Rights
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World Food Safety Day (2019), para. 04
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- Noting that there is no food security without food safety and that in a world where the food supply chain has become more complex, any adverse food safety incident may have global negative effects on public health, trade and the economy,
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World Bee Day (2018), para. 17
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- 3. Invites the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to facilitate the observance of World Bee Day, in collaboration with other relevant organizations, mindful of the provisions contained in the annex to Economic and Social Council resolution 1980/67 ;
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- Food & Nutrition
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World Bee Day (2018), para. 08
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- Noting the urgent need to address the issue of the worldwide decline of pollinator diversity and the risks that this implies for agriculture sustainability, human livelihoods and food supplies,
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- Environment
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World Bee Day (2018), para. 06
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- Recalling the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on pollination services for sustainable agriculture, and the leading role played by the Food and Agriculture Organization in facilitating and coordinating the International Initiative for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Pollinators, established in 2002 under the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1
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- Environment
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White Helmets Commission: participation of volunteers in the activities of the United Nations in the field of humanitarian relief, rehabilitation and technical cooperation for development (2019), para. 05
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- Recognizing that the international community, in addressing the growing magnitude and complexity of disasters and chronic challenges, such as hunger, malnutrition and poverty, must rely on the formulation of a well -coordinated global response within the framework of the United Nations and on the promotion of a smooth transition from relief to rehabilitation, reconstruction and development,
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- Humanitarian
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United Nations Millennium Declaration (2000), para. 42
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- • To halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world’s people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger and, by the same date, to halve the proportion of people who are unable to reach or to afford safe drinking water.
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- Food & Nutrition
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2019), para. 188
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- 1. Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to adequate training suited to the specific agroecological, sociocultural and economic environments in which they find themselves. Issues covered by training programmes should include, but not be limited to, improving productivity, marketing and the ability to cope with pests, pathogens, system shocks, the effects of chemicals, climate change and weather-related events.
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- Economic Rights
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2019), para. 161
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- 6. States shall take appropriate measures to support peasant seed systems and promote the use of peasant seeds and agrobiodiversity.
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2019), para. 156
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- (c) The right to participate in the making of decisions on matters relating to the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture;
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2019), para. 155
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- (b) The right to equitably participate in sharing the benefits arising from the utilization of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture;
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2019), para. 154
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- (a) The right to the protection of traditional knowledge relevant to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture;
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2019), para. 135
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- 4. States shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that their rural development, agricultural, environmental, trade and investment policies and programmes contribute effectively to protecting and strengthening local livelihood options and to the transition to sustainable modes of agricultural production. States shall stimulate sustainable production, including agroecological and organic production, whenever possible, and facilitate direct farmer-to-consumer sales.
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- Economic Rights
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2019), para. 130
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- 5. States shall formulate, in partnership with peasants and other people working in rural areas, public policies at the local, national, regional and international levels to advance and protect the right to adequate food, food security and food sovereignty and sustainable and equitable food systems that promote and protect the rights contained in the present Declaration. States shall establish mechanisms to ensure the coherence of their agricultural, economic, social, cultural and development policies with the realization of the rights contained in the present Declaration.
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2019), para. 129
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- 4. Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to determine their own food and agriculture systems, recognized by many States and regions as the right to food sovereignty. This includes the right to participate in decision-making processes on food and agriculture policy and the right to healthy and adequate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods that respect their cultures.
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- Equality & Inclusion
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2019), para. 127
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- 2. States shall ensure that peasants and other people working in rural areas enjoy physical and economic access at all times to sufficient and adequate food that is produced and consumed sustainably and equitably, respecting their cultures, preserving access to food for future generations, and that ensures a physically and mentally fulfilling and dignified life for them, individually and/or collectively, responding to their needs.
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2019), para. 126
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- 1. Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to adequate food and the fundamental right to be free from hunger. This includes the right to produce food and the right to adequate nutrition, which guarantee the possibility of enjoying the highest degree of physical, emotional and intellectual development.
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- Equality & Inclusion
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2019), para. 121
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- (b) An appropriate national system or any other system approved by the competent authority establishing specific criteria for the importation, classification, packaging, distribution, labelling and use of chemicals used in a griculture, and for their prohibition or restriction;
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
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- Social & Cultural Rights
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2019), para. 054
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- (e) Improving the functioning of markets at the global level and facilitating timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help to limit extreme food price volatility and the attractiveness of speculation.
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- Economic Rights
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2019), para. 034
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- Recalling further the extensive work of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Committee on World Food Security on the right to food, tenure rights, access to natural resources and other rights of peasants, in particular the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, 13 and the Organization’s Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security, 14 the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication and the Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security, 15
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