A/RES/74/242 Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 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, par ticularly those related to ending hunger and malnutrition, Recalling the United Nations strategic plan for forests 2017–2030, 22 acknowledging 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 prevent land degradation and desertification and reduce the risks of floods, landslides and avalanches, droughts, dust and sand storms 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 outcome of the forty-sixth session of the Committee on World Food Security, held in Rome from 14 to 18 October 2019, taking note of its main outcomes, and recalling the ongoing inclusive process leading to the development of Committee on World Food Security voluntary guidelines on food systems and nutrition, to be endorsed at the forty-seventh session of the Committee, Welcoming the initiative by the Secretary-General of 16 October 2019 to convene a World Food Systems Summit in 2021, Welcoming also resolution 7/2019 of 28 June 2019 of the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, entitled “Further integration of sustainable agricultural approaches, including agroecology, in the future planning activities of FAO”, 23 and recognizing that agroecology is one approach, among others, to contribute to sustainably feeding a growing population, Taking note of the launch of the Sustainable Food Systems Programme under the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns, 24 an inclusive initiative to accelerate the shift towards sustainable food systems, Encouraging Member States to advance innovative pathways to achieve sustainable consumption and production, in line with United Nations Environment Assembly resolution 4/1 of 15 March 2019, 25 Recalling the operationalization of the Technology Bank for the Least Developed Countries, which is helping the least developed countries to strengthen their science, technology and innovation capacities and fostering the development of national and regional innovation ecosystems, as well as developing capacities for partnerships in science, technology and innovation collaboration with other countries worldwide, Noting with appreciation the work undertaken by relevant international bodies and organizations, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children ’s Fund and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) on agricultural development and on enhancing food security and food safety and improving nutrition outcomes, __________________ 22 23 24 25 4/13 See resolution 71/285. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document C 2019/REP, appendix D. A/CONF.216/5, annex. UNEP/EA.4/Res.1. 19-22517