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implementation of common projects, to support strategies of Member States aimed at the
fulfilment of the right to food and to avoid any actions that could have a negative impact on
the realization of the right to food;
34.
Calls upon Member States, the United Nations system and other relevant
stakeholders to support national efforts aimed at responding rapidly to the food crises
currently occurring across Africa, in particular in the Horn of Africa and in the Sahel, and
expresses its deep concern that funding shortfalls are forcing the World Food Programme to
cut operations across different regions, including southern Africa;
35.
Encourages developing countries to establish regional arrangements, where
they do not exist, with the support of the international community and development
partners to ensure adequate food production and thereby contribute to ensuring food and
nutrition security, in particular in developing countries that have scarce fertile land;
36.
Welcomes the adoption by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations of a regional approach towards ensuring food and nutrition security, and
expresses its appreciation for the current collaboration with all Rome-based institutions
working comprehensively towards the realization of the right to food;
37.
Encourages the Special Rapporteur on the right to food and the Working
Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business
enterprises to cooperate on the subject of the contribution of the private sector to the
realization of the right to food, including the importance of ensuring sustainable water
resources for human consumption and agriculture;
38.
Encourages the Special Rapporteur to continue his collaboration with
relevant international organizations and United Nations agencies, programmes and funds, in
particular the Rome-based ones, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food
Programme, in order to contribute to ensuring that the right to food is promoted further
within these organizations, in accordance with their respective mandates, including for the
advancement of smallholders and agricultural workers in both developing and least
developed countries;
39.
Expresses concern at the negative impact on the full enjoyment of the right to
adequate food of insufficient purchasing power and the increased price volatility of
agricultural commodities on international markets, particularly on people in developing
countries and on net food-importing countries;
40.
Stresses the need to address the root causes of excessive food price volatility,
including its structural causes, at all levels, and the need to manage the risks linked to high
and excessively volatile prices in agriculture commodities and their consequences for
global food and nutrition security;
41.
Encourages the Special Rapporteur, within his existing mandate, to explore,
in consultation with Member States and relevant stakeholders, ways and means of raising
the capacity of countries, particularly developing countries, including least developed and
net food-importing developing countries, to ensure the realization and protection of the
right to adequate food for their populations, and to report on his findings to the Human
Rights Council;
42.
Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Special Rapporteur1 and the
recommendations contained therein;
43.
Calls upon all States and, if appropriate, relevant international organizations:
(a)
To combat the different forms of malnutrition as a means to realize the right
to adequate food, including, if appropriate, by adopting a national strategy in this regard;
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