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and to cooperate with relevant international organizations to ensure that the international
trade regime and global economic architecture are geared towards fulfilling the right to food;
10.
Also encourages the Special Rapporteur to continue his collaboration with
United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, and international financial institutions, and
to facilitate their cooperation in order to contribute to ensuring that the right to food is
promoted further within these organizations, in accordance with their mandates, including
for the advancement of smallholders and agricultural workers in both developing and least
developed countries;
11.
Recognizes the importance of giving due consideration to the adverse impact
of climate change on the full realization of the right to food;
12.
Reiterates that improving access to productive resources and responsible
public investment in rural development, taking into consideration the Principles for
Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems, as endorsed by the Committee on
World Food Security, is essential for eradicating hunger and poverty, in particular in
developing countries, including through the promotion of investment, including private
investment, in appropriate small-scale irrigation and water management technologies in order
to reduce vulnerability to droughts, tackle water scarcity and ensure the preservation and
sustainable use of ecosystems;
13.
Recognizes the importance of smallholder and family farmers and peasants in
developing countries, including women and local and indigenous communities, in ensuring
food security, reducing poverty and preserving ecosystems, and the need to assist their
development;
14.
Reaffirms the need to ensure that programmes delivering safe, sufficient,
nutritious and culturally accepted food are inclusive and accessible to persons with
disabilities;
15.
Encourages States to promote the conditions for everyone to be free from
hunger and, as soon as possible, to enjoy fully the right to food, and, where appropriate, to
consider establishing appropriate institutional mechanisms and adopting national plans to
combat hunger;
16.
Recognizes the advances made through South-South and triangular
cooperation in developing countries and regions in connection with food security and the
development of agricultural production for the full realization of the right to food;
17.
Also recognizes the importance of traditional sustainable agricultural practices,
inter alia, traditional seed supply systems, and access to locally adapted seeds, including for
many indigenous peoples and local communities;
18.
Stresses that the primary responsibility of States is to promote and protect the
right to food, including in humanitarian emergencies, and that the international community
should provide, through a coordinated response and upon request, international cooperation
in support of national and regional efforts by providing the assistance necessary to increase
food production and access to food, in particular through agricultural development assistance,
the transfer of technology, food crop rehabilitation assistance and food aid, achieving food
security, with special attention paid to the specific needs of women and girls, and promoting
support for the development of adapted technologies, research on rural advisory services and
support for access to financing services, and to ensure support for the establishment of secure
land tenure systems;
19.
Calls upon States to consider reviewing any policy or measure that could have
a negative impact on the realization of the right to food, in particular the right of everyone to
be free from hunger, before instituting such a policy or measure;
20.
Recalls the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
and the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly known
as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, 2 and acknowledges that many indigenous
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General Assembly resolution 69/2.