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Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, and related instruments (2015), para. 017
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- Expressing concern over the current and projected adverse effects of climate change on food security and the sustainability of fisheries, and noting in that regard the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United Nations Environment Programme,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2017), para. 65
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- 32. Recognizes that the promises made at the World Food Summit in 1996 to halve the number of persons who are undernourished are not being fulfilled, while recognizing the efforts of Member States in this regard, and once again invites all international financial and development institutions, and the relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, to give priority to and provide the funding necessary to realize the right to food, as set out in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security, and to achieve the aims of Sustainable Development Goal 2 and other food and nutrition-related targets;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, and related instruments (2008), para. 014
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- Noting the limited information available on measures taken by States to implement, individually and through regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements, the International Plan of Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity adopted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2019), para. 09
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- Acknowledging that the right to food has been recognized as the right of every individual, alone or in community with others, to have physical and economic access at all times to sufficient, adequate and nutritious food, in conformity with, inter alia, the culture, beliefs, traditions, dietary habits and preferences of individuals, and that is produced and consumed sustainably, thereby preserving access to food for future generations,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Social & Cultural Rights
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Enhancing international cooperation towards a durable solution to the external debt problem of developing countries (1996), para. 38
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- 16. Recognizes that the evolving debt strategy must be accompanied by a favourable and supportive international environment, including the full implementation of the results of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations, and the Marrakesh ministerial decisions in favour of the least developed countries and net food-importing developing countries; 5/
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- Economic Rights
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2014), para. 60
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- 29. Further recognizes the importance of timely, accurate and transparent information in helping to address excessive food price volatility, notes global and regional initiatives, including the Agricultural Market Information System and its Rapid Response Forum, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Food Security Information System of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Asia-Pacific Information Platform on Food Security, and urges international organizations, private sector actors and Governments to participate and ensure the public dissemination of timely and quality food market information products;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2020), para. 50
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- 22. Requests relevant United Nations organizations, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to promote, support and facilitate the exchange of experience among Member States through, inter alia, recommendations and other public goods re lated to ways to promote sustainable agriculture and increase the adaptive capacity of agriculture and the use of a broad range of agricultural technologies that support more sustainable food systems, build long-term fertility, healthy and resilient agroecosystems and secure livelihoods and have a positive impact on the entire value chain, including technology for post-harvest crop storage, processing, handling and transportation, including in pressing environmental circumstances;
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
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- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2006), para. 19
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- 6. Encourages the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the right to food to continue mainstreaming a gender perspective in the fulfilment of his mandate, and encourages the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and all other United Nations bodies and mechanisms addressing the right to food and food insecurity to integrate a gender perspective into their relevant policies, programmes and activities;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2018), para. 07
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- Reaffirming the importance of the concrete recommendations contained in the Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security, adopted by the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in November 2004, and the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and its Framework for Action, adopted at the second International Conference on Nutrition, in Rome on 21 November 2014,
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters, from relief to development (2020), para. 020
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- Expressing its deep concern at the increasing challenges to Member States and to the United Nations humanitarian response capacity to deal with the consequences of natural disasters, given the effects of global challenges, including the impact of climate change, the adverse impacts of the global financial and economic crisis and volatile food prices on food security and nutrition, and other key factors that exacerbate the vulnerability of populations and exposure to natural hazards and the impact of natural disasters,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2017), para. 43
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- 13. Encourages all States to take steps, with a view to progressively achieving the full realization of the right to food, including steps to promote the conditions for everyone to be free from hunger and, as soon as possible, to enjoy fully the right to food, and to create and adopt national plans to combat hunger;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2019), para. 91
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- 40. Further encourages countries to give due consideration to the dissemination, promotion and implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security, adopted by the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 2004, 31 as well as the United Nations strategic plan for forests 2017–2030 adopted by the General Assembly in 2017; 23
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2018), para. 34
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- 8. Acknowledges the importance of adopting innovative and sustainable food systems by harnessing science, technology and innovation, promoting participatory research, demand-driven extension and rural advisory services and increased public and private investment, building human capacity, encouraging entrepreneurship, creating an enabling economic and institutional environment and strengthening knowledge flows, in particular between scientists and farmers, taking into account local and traditional knowledge systems, in combination with new sources of knowledge;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Emergency humanitarian assistance to Ethiopia (2004), para. 06
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- Bearing in mind the joint 2004 appeal of the United Nations and the Government of Ethiopia for emergency assistance for Ethiopia, to respond to the food and non-food requirements of households in need so as to prevent the worsening of the current humanitarian crisis,
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- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, and related instruments (2008), para. 072
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- 36. Urges States to develop and implement, as a matter of priority, national and, as appropriate, regional plans of action to put into effect the international plans of action of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006) (2004), para. 38
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- 26. Also recognizes the important potential contribution of the World Solidarity Fund to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, in particular the objective to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people living on less than one dollar a day and the proportion of the people who suffer from hunger;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Global health and foreign policy: a healthier world through better nutrition (2019), para. 18
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- Recognizing the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger and all forms of malnutrition, and encouraging international cooperation and assistance to support the efforts of Member States in this regard, as well as to achieve health goals, implement universal access to health services and address health challenges, and increase food production and access to healthy and nutritious food and its utilization, while taking into account different national circumstances and capacities and respecting national policies and priorities,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Emergency action to combat locust infestation in Africa (1993), para. 07
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- 2. Notes with satisfaction the efforts of the affected countries, and expresses its gratitude to donor countries, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other competent institutions of the United Nations system for their efforts to contain the locust infestation in Africa;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Persons on the move
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Combating sand and dust storms (2019), para. 30
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- 15. Encourages the relevant entities of the United Nations, including the World Health Organization, the United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Meteorological Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, and donors to provide capacity-building and technical assistance for combating sand and dust storms and to support the implementation of the national, regional and global action plans of the affected countries;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2011), para. 19
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- Expressing its deep concern at the number and scale of natural disasters, diseases and pests and their increasing impact in recent years, which have resulted in massive loss of life and livelihood and threatened agricultural production and food security, in particular in developing countries,
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Draft outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals (2010), para. 116
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- (u) Reaffirming 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2019), para. 54
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- 29. Invites Governments, relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, treaty bodies, civil society actors, including non-governmental organizations, and the private sector to cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteur in the fulfilment of the mandate through, inter alia, the submission of comments and suggestions on ways and means of realizing the right to food;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2020), para. 040
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- 6. Recognizes the complex character of the ongoing food insecurity situation, including food price volatility, as a combination of several major factors, both structural and conjunctural, which is also negatively affected by, inter alia, environmental degradation, drought and desertification, global climate change, natural disasters, the lack of the necessary technology and armed conflicts, and also recognizes that a strong commitment from national Governments and the international community as a whole is required to confront the major threats to food security and to ensure that policies in the area of agriculture do not distort trade and worsen food insecurity;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2014), para. 69
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- 39. Encourages international, regional and national efforts to strengthen the productive capacity of developing countries, in particular their small-scale producers, by, inter alia, improving the proper functioning of markets, storage, rural infrastructure, research and pre-harvest and post-harvest practices, in order to enhance the production, productivity and nutritional quality of food crops and promote sustainable practices in pre-harvest and post-harvest agricultural activities;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2018), para. 27
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- 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,
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Year of Rice, 2004 (2003), para. 7
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- 2. Invites the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to facilitate the implementation of the International Year of Rice, in collaboration with Governments, the United Nations Development Programme, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research centres and other relevant organizations of the United Nations system and non-governmental organizations.
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to development (2010), para. 47
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- 22. Expresses its deep concern, in this regard, at the negative impact on the realization of the right to development owing to the further aggravation of the economic and social situation, in particular of developing countries, as a result of the ongoing international energy, food and financial crises as well as global climate change;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Political Declaration of the Comprehensive High-level Midterm Review of the Implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020 (2016), para. 076
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- 54. We support the Secretary-General’s Zero Hunger Challenge and recommend increasing sustainable and responsible investment, both domestic and international, in sustainable agriculture and food security, the sustainable use of water resources, including through international public and private cooperation in rural and urban infrastructure, nutrition, secure land tenure, agricultural research and extension services, access to markets and to finance, especially for smallholder farmers, building irrigation facilities, technology developme nt and transfer on mutually agreed terms, the promotion of resilient and sustainable agricultural practices and reducing food loss and waste. We reaffirm the commitment to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable d evelopment, and to increase the economic benefits to the least developed countries that are small island developing States and coastal countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through the sustainable management of fisheries, aquacu lture and tourism by 2030.
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2017), para. 56
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- 23. Encourages all relevant international organizations and agencies to bring a human rights perspective and the need for the realization of the right to food for all to their studies, research, reports and resolutions on the issue of food security;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2016), para. 08
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- Concerned that the precarious humanitarian situation in the country is exacerbated by the failure of the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to provide humanitarian agencies with free and unimpeded access to all populations in need and by its national policy priorities that, among others, prioritize military spending over citizens’ access to food,
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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