E/2021/25 E/CN.9/2021/6 8. Calls upon Member States and other relevant stakeholders to keep food and agriculture supply chains functioning, ensure the continued trade in and movement of food and livestock, products and inputs essential for agricultural and food production to markets, reduce food losses and prevent and reuse food waste, support workers, fishers and farmers, including smallholder farmers, rural women and youth, and migrant and seasonal workers in agriculture and food supply chains to continue their essential work, including cross-border, in a safe manner, mobilize and allocate adequate sustainable management and use of resources and enhance institutional capacities for an accelerated implementation of sustainable agriculture, sustainable fisheries and sustainable aquaculture and food systems, provide continued access to adequate, safe, affordable and nutritious food, and provide adequate social safety nets and assistance to minimize the negative effects of loss of livelihoods and increasing food prices on food insecurity and malnutrition, and underlines that the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating existing high levels of acute food insecurity, malnutrition and humanitarian needs; 9. Urges Member States to safeguard food security and nutrition for all, including women, children, adolescents and youth, older persons, indigenous peoples, local communities, rural populations and rural producers, displaced persons, refugees and migrants, the urban and rural poor, persons with disabilities, people living with HIV/AIDS and those living in vulnerable situations, including those enduring humanitarian crises, the adverse effects of climate change or economic shocks, inter alia, by promoting economic, social and environmental policies to counteract the adverse impact of economic slowdowns and downturns on efforts to end hunger and malnutrition; 10. Also urges Member States to take multisectoral action to promote active and healthy lifestyles, including physical activity for the benefit of all people throughout their life course, and ensure a world free from malnutrition in all its forms, where all people are empowered to take responsibility for their own health, supported by public regulatory measures, and have access to safe drinking water and sanitation and safe, sufficient and nutritious food and enjoy diversified, balanced and healthy diets throughout their life course, with special emphasis to the nutrition needs of pregnant and lactating women, women of reproductive age and adolescent girls, and of infants and young children, especially during the first 1,000 days, including, as appropriate, through exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months, with continued breastfeeding to 2 years of age or beyond, with appropriate complementary feeding; 11. Urges Governments and the international community to ensure that young people, on an equitable and universal basis, enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health by providing them with access to sustainable health and social services without discrimination, by paying special attention to nutrition, including eating disorders and obesity, prevention of non-communicable and communicable diseases, and by supporting measures to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV and AIDS, as well as the removal of all types of barriers to the ability of adolescents and youth to protect their health, and to actively support and invest in increased participation of young people and in youth-led and youth-focused organizations in the formulation, decisions about, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of, as appropriate, international, regional, national and local development strategies and policies that affect young people; 12. Recognizes that children who are given the opportunity to grow and develop in a healthy environment that is responsive to their needs, including breastfeeding, and that, at a young age, fosters and encourages healthy behaviour and lifestyles, including access to healthy dietary choices and school meals and regular physical activity, and promotes the maintenance of healthy lifestyles, can greatly 21-06093 17/32