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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 8
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- Welcoming also the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in Quito, Ecuador, from 17 to 20 October 2016,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- 2017
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- Aug 19, 2019
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 31
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- Notes the International Fund for Agricultural Development initiative of organizing the first International Conference on South-South and Triangular Cooperation, on the theme “Leveraging Innovations from the Global South to Support Rural Transformation”, held in Brasilia on 20 and 21 November 2017;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Environment
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- 2017
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- Aug 19, 2019
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 30
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- Noting the convening of the thirty-first session of the Regional Conference for Europe and Central Asia of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Voronezh, Russian Federation, in May 2018, with a focus on agricultural, food security and nutrition issues, including their links with climate change,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
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- N.A.
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- 2017
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- Aug 19, 2019
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 7
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- Welcoming the Paris Agreement and its early entry into force, encouraging all its parties to fully implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that have not yet done so to deposit their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate, as soon as possible,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Resolution
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- 2017
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- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in development 2017, para. 8
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- Welcoming the Paris Agreement and its early entry into force, encouraging all its parties to fully implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that have not yet done so to deposit their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate, as soon as possible,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- 2017
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- Aug 19, 2019
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 29
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- Expressing concern that climate change has contributed and continues to contribute to the increased frequency and intensity of both sudden-onset natural disasters and slow-onset events, and that these events have adverse effects on the full enjoyment of all human rights, including the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Environment
- Water & Sanitation
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- N.A.
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- 2017
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- Aug 19, 2019
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 24
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- Recognizing that, in progressively realizing the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, as well as other human rights, States should increasingly pursue integrated approaches and strengthen their water resource management, including by improving wastewater treatment and by preventing and reducing surface and groundwater pollution,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Resolution
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- N.A.
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- 2017
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- Aug 19, 2019
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 5
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- Recalling further the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development of June 1992 and its resolution 66/288 of 27 July 2012, entitled “The future we want”, and emphasizing the critical importance of water and sanitation within the three dimensions of sustainable development,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Environment
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- Water & Sanitation
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- 2017
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- Aug 19, 2019
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 34
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- Encourages countries to give due consideration to the dissemination, promotion and implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security, as well as the voluntary Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems, as endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security in 2012 and 2014, respectively;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
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- 2017
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- Aug 19, 2019
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 4
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- Expresses concern that the world is not on track to eradicate hunger and malnutrition by 2030 and that scarce and unsustainably managed natural resources, combined with insecure and uneven tenure rights for smallholders, are severely affecting those in vulnerable situations in rural areas, that climate change, drought, desertification and conflict and post-conflict situations are challenges with regard to food security and nutrition and diet-related non-communicable diseases in many places, preventing progress in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, and that countries in protracted crises are at risk of being left behind;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
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- 2017
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- Aug 19, 2019
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 14
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- Recalling the United Nations strategic plan for forests 2017–2030, acknowledging that forests provide essential ecosystem services, such as timber, food, fuel, fodder, non-wood products and shelter, as well as soil and water conservation and clean air, 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,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
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- 2017
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- Aug 19, 2019
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 5
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- Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions — economic, social and environmental — in a balanced and integrated manner, and to building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking to address their unfinished business,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Resolution
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Poverty
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- N.A.
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- 2017
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- Aug 19, 2019
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 3
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- Recalling further the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg Plan of Implementation), the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development, the 2005 World Summit Outcome, the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development: outcome document of the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020, the Vienna Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries and the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Resolution
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- 2017
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