A/RES/78/168 Agriculture development, food security and nutrition coordination group on antimicrobial resistance, looking forward to the upcoming high-level meeting on antimicrobial resistance to be held at the seventy -ninth session of the General Assembly, and recalling the operational definition of One Health agreed by the One Health High-level Expert Panel, supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the World Organization for Animal Health and the United Nations Environment Programme, Expressing deep concern that reaching the midpoint of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, the world is still far from achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2, that, at the current pace and scope of implementation, it is unlikely to promote the transformational change required and that many parts of the world will not be able to achieve the targets in a timely manner, and calling for additional efforts to support the transformational change needed, 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, academia, the private sector and the international community, reiterating that the root causes of food insecurity and malnutrition are poverty, growing inequality, inequity and lack of access to resources and incomeearning opportunities, the coronavirus disease (COVID -19) pandemic, the effects of climate change, biodiversity loss, and disasters, conflicts and geopolitical tensions, and remaining concerned that excessively volatile food prices can 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 internationally agreed development goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly those related to ending hunger and all forms of malnutrition, and the fulfilment of the right to adequate food, Recalling the United Nations strategic plan for forests 2017–2030, 22 taking note of the Seoul Forest Declaration, adopted on 6 May 2022 at the fifteenth World Forestry Congress, which acknowledge that forests provide essential products and ecosystem services, such as timber, food, fuel, fodder, non-wood products and shelter, as well as soil and water conservation and clean air, that sustainable management of forests and trees outside forests is vital to the integrated implementation of the 2030 Agenda and that forests and sustainable forest management prevent land degradation and desertification and reduce the risks of floods, landslides and avalanches, droughts, dust and sand storms, wildfires and other disasters, and stressing in this regard the role of all types of forests, including boreal, temperate and tropical forests, in providing food security and nutrition, Recalling also the forty-seventh, forty-eighth forty-ninth and fiftieth sessions of the Committee on World Food Security, held in Rome from 8 to 11 February 2021, on 4 June 2021, from 11 to 14 October 2021 and from 10 to 13 October 2022, respectively, taking note of their main outcomes, and welcoming the adoption by the Committee of the voluntary guidelines on food systems and nutrition and of the policy recommendations on agroecological and other innovative approaches to sustainable agriculture and food systems that enhance food security and nutrition, Taking note of the fifty-first session of the Committee on World Food Security, held in Rome from 23 to 27 October 2023, and the adoption of its final report and of its main outcomes, __________________ 22 4/19 See resolution 71/285. 23-25877