The right to food A/RES/80/210 essential foundation that will enable States to give adequate priority to food security, improved nutrition and poverty eradication, Reiterating, as set out in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security, the Declaration of the World Food Summit and the Rome Declaration on Nutrition, 13 that food should not be used as an instrument of political or economic pressure, and reaffirming in this regard the importance of international cooperation and solidarity, as well as the necessity of refraining from unilateral measures that are not in accordance with international law and the Charter and that endanger food security and nutrition, Expressing appreciation for the work of the United Nations system, in particular the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Food Programme and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, aimed at ending hunger and achieving food security and improved nutrition, and recognizing their work in supporting the efforts of Member States to achieve the full realization of the right to food, including through their provision of technical assistance to developing countries in support of the implementation of national priority frameworks, Recognizing the role of the Committee on World Food Security as an important and inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for a broad range of committed stakeholders to work together in a coordinated manner and in support of country-led processes towards the elimination of hunger and ensuring food security and nutrition for all human beings, Convinced that each State must adopt a strategy consistent with its resources and capacities to achieve its individual goals in implementing the recommendations contained in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the World Food Summit Plan of Action, as well as in the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and the Framework for Action, 14 and, at the same time, cooperate regionally and internationally in order to organize collective solutions to global issues of food security and nutrition in a world of increasingly interlinked institutions, societies and economies where coordinated efforts and shared responsibilities are essential, Recognizing that, despite the efforts made and the fact that some positive results have been achieved, the problems of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition have a global dimension, that there has not been sufficient progress in reducing hunger and malnutrition in all its forms and that these problems are increasing dramatically in some regions in the absence of urgent, determined and concerted action, Recognizing also the importance of modern and traditional sustainable agricultural practices, including traditional seed supply systems, as well as access to credit and other financial services, markets, secure land tenure, healthcare, social services, education, training, knowledge and appropriate and affordable technologies, including efficient irrigation, the reuse of treated wastewater and water harvesting and storage for Indigenous Peoples and others living in rural areas, Recognizing further the complex character of food insecurity and its likely recurrence due to a combination of several major factors, such as the effects of the global financial and economic crisis, environmental degradation, desertification and the adverse impacts of climate change, as well as poverty, natural disasters, armed conflicts, humanitarian emergencies, drought, volatility in commodity prices, the increase in interest rates, foreign debt and inflation, and the lack in many countries of the appropriate technology, investment and capacity-building necessary to confront its impact, particularly in developing countries, including the least developed _______________ 13 14 25-20966 World Health Organization, document EB136/8, annex I. Ibid., annex II. 3/13