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security and the nutritional needs of urban residents, particularly the urban poor, in
order to end hunger and malnutrition,
Expressing concern that climate change will disproportionately impact
developing countries, local and marginalized communities and people in vulnerable
situations, especially women and children, and their livelihoods, 20 ultimately putting
hundreds of millions of people at risk, and that by 2050, the risk of hunger and child
malnutrition could increase by up to 20 per cent owing to the adverse impacts of
climate change, and reiterating the urgent need for action to build resilience,
especially for the poorest and those in vulnerable situations, by investing in
prevention and preparedness, including disaster risk reduction, especiall y in
adaptation and mitigation strategies, and enhancing joint risk assessments and risk
management strategies to cut the impact and cost of natural disasters to address the
adverse effects of climate change on food security, including for women, children,
youth, older persons, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples, local and rural
communities, as well as the other root causes of food insecurity and all forms of
malnutrition, and to ensure rapid and effective response to disasters and related
displacement, including access to essential food and non-food relief supplies, as
appropriate to local needs,
Recalling the political declaration of the high-level meeting on universal health
coverage, 21 which reaffirmed the right of every human being, without distinction of
any kind, to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental
health, and recognized that food security and food safety, adequate nutrition and
sustainable, resilient and diverse nutrition-sensitive food systems are important
elements for healthier populations,
Reaffirming the right of everyone to have access to safe and nutritious food,
consistent with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to
be free from hunger,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 70/259 of 1 April 2016, by which it
proclaimed the period 2016–2025 the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition,
recalling also General Assembly resolution 72/239 of 20 December 2017, by which it
proclaimed the period 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 for Sustainable Development and to the
achievement of poverty eradication, food security and improved nutrition, recalling
further the Rome Declaration on World Food Security of 13 November 1996, the 2009
Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security, 22 particularly the Five Rome
Principles for Sustainable Global Food Security, and noting the 2014 Rome
Declaration on Nutrition, 23 as well as its Framework for Action, 24
Emphasizing the urgent need for international cooperation to improve the
sustainability of food systems, especially methods of production, processing,
conservation and distribution of food, including through the dissemination of
technical and scientific knowledge, and by developing and reforming food systems in
such a way as to achieve the most efficient, sustainable development and utilization
of natural resources to ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in
relation to need,
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Based on Goal 13 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
General Assembly resolution 74/2.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document WSFS 2009/2.
World Health Organization, document EB136/8, annex I.
Ibid., annex II.
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