A/HRC/RES/37/10
Resolved to act to ensure that the promotion, protection and fulfilment of all human
rights is taken into account at the national, regional and international levels in measures to
address the realization of the right to food,
Expressing its deep concern at the number and scale of human-made and natural
disasters, diseases and pest infestations, as well as the negative impact of climate change,
and their increasing impact in recent years, which have, in combination with other factors,
resulted in substantial loss of life and livelihood and threatened agricultural production and
food and nutrition security, in particular in developing countries,
Stressing the need to increase official development assistance devoted to agriculture,
both in real terms and as a share of total official development assistance, and recognizing
that small and medium-sized farmers in developing countries need to receive technical,
technology transfer and capacity-building support,
Recognizing the need to increase sustainable private and public investments in
agriculture from all relevant sources for the realization of the right to food,
Recalling the endorsement of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible
Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food
Security by the Committee on World Food Security at its thirty-eighth session, held on 11
May 2012, and by the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations at its 144th session,
Recalling also the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food
Systems, which were endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security at its forty-first
session, held in October 2014,
Stressing the importance of the second International Conference on Nutrition, hosted
by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations in Rome from 19 to 21 November 2014, at which the two main outcome
documents, namely, the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and the Framework for Action,
were endorsed,
Recognizing the importance of the protection and preservation of agrobiodiversity in
guaranteeing food security and the right to food for all,
Recognizing also the role of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations as the key United Nations agency for rural and agricultural development and its
work in supporting the efforts of Member States to achieve the full realization of the right
to food, including through its provision of technical assistance to developing countries in
support of the implementation of national priority frameworks,
Recalling the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development, entitled “The future we want”, endorsed by the General Assembly in its
resolution 66/288 on 27 July 2012, and reaffirming the principles contained therein,
1.
Reaffirms that hunger constitutes an outrage and a violation of human
dignity, and therefore requires the adoption of urgent measures at the national, regional and
international levels for its elimination;
2.
Also reaffirms the right of everyone to have access to safe, sufficient and
nutritious food, consistent with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of
everyone to be free from hunger, so as to be able to fully develop and maintain his or her
physical and mental capacities;
3.
Considers it intolerable that, as estimated by the United Nations Children’s
Fund, nearly half of all deaths of children under the age of 5 are attributable to
undernutrition, translating into the loss of about 3 million young lives a year and that, as
estimated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, about 815
million people in the world suffer from chronic hunger owing to the lack of sufficient food
for the conduct of an active and healthy life, including as one of the effects derived from
food insecurity, while, according to the Organization, the planet could produce enough food
to feed everyone around the world;
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