E/2021/25 E/CN.9/2021/6 security and the nutritional needs of urban residents, particularly the urban poor, in order to end hunger and malnutrition, Expressing concern that climate change will disproportionately impact developing countries, local and marginalized communities and people in vulnerable situations, especially women and children, and their livelihoods, 20 ultimately putting hundreds of millions of people at risk, and that by 2050, the risk of hunger and child malnutrition could increase by up to 20 per cent owing to the adverse impacts of climate change, and reiterating the urgent need for action to build resilience, especially for the poorest and those in vulnerable situations, by investing in prevention and preparedness, including disaster risk reduction, especiall y in adaptation and mitigation strategies, and enhancing joint risk assessments and risk management strategies to cut the impact and cost of natural disasters to address the adverse effects of climate change on food security, including for women, children, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples, local and rural communities, as well as the other root causes of food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition, and to ensure rapid and effective response to disasters and related displacement, including access to essential food and non-food relief supplies, as appropriate to local needs, Recalling the political declaration of the high-level meeting on universal health coverage, 21 which reaffirmed the right of every human being, without distinction of any kind, to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, and recognized that food security and food safety, adequate nutrition and sustainable, resilient and diverse nutrition-sensitive food systems are important elements for healthier populations, Reaffirming the right of everyone to have access to safe and nutritious food, consistent with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger, Recalling General Assembly resolution 70/259 of 1 April 2016, by which it proclaimed the period 2016–2025 the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition, recalling also General Assembly resolution 72/239 of 20 December 2017, by which it proclaimed the period 2019–2028 the United Nations Decade of Family Farming, which raises the profile of the role of family farming in contributing to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to the achievement of poverty eradication, food security and improved nutrition, recalling further the Rome Declaration on World Food Security of 13 November 1996, the 2009 Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security, 22 particularly the Five Rome Principles for Sustainable Global Food Security, and noting the 2014 Rome Declaration on Nutrition, 23 as well as its Framework for Action, 24 Emphasizing the urgent need for international cooperation to improve the sustainability of food systems, especially methods of production, processing, conservation and distribution of food, including through the dissemination of technical and scientific knowledge, and by developing and reforming food systems in such a way as to achieve the most efficient, sustainable development and utilization of natural resources to ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to need, __________________ 20 21 22 23 24 21-06093 Based on Goal 13 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. General Assembly resolution 74/2. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document WSFS 2009/2. World Health Organization, document EB136/8, annex I. Ibid., annex II. 13/32