A/RES/65/178
Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, 11 and the ten-year strategic
plan and framework to enhance the implementation of the Convention (2008–2018), 12
10F
1F
Recalling the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and Plan of Action of
the World Food Summit, 13 the Declaration of the World Food Summit: five years
later, 14 including the goal of achieving food security for all through an ongoing
effort to eradicate hunger in all countries, with an immediate view to reducing by
half the number of undernourished people by no later than 2015, as well as the
commitment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals,
12F
13F
Reaffirming the goal set out in paragraph 19 of the United Nations Millennium
Declaration 15 to halve, by 2015, the proportion of the world’s people whose income
is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger,
14F
Welcoming the outcome of the seventeenth session of the Commission on
Sustainable Development, on the thematic cluster of issues on agriculture, rural
development, land, drought, desertification and Africa, 16
15F
Noting with appreciation the work undertaken by relevant international bodies
and organizations, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food
Programme, on agriculture development and on enhancing food security and
nutrition,
Acknowledging the work undertaken by the High-level Task Force on the Global
Food Security Crisis,
Welcoming the outcome of the thirty-sixth session of the Committee on World
Food Security,
Noting the ongoing process of developing principles for responsible
agricultural investment that respects rights, livelihoods and resources, as well as the
inclusive process for the development of voluntary guidelines on the responsible
governance of tenure of land and other natural resources,
Noting also the holding of the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for
Development in Montpellier, France, from 28 to 31 March 2010,
Recognizing the importance of an enabling international and national environment
to increase and sustain investment in the agriculture sector of developing countries
and to create a more level playing field in agriculture through greater market access,
a substantial reduction in trade-distorting domestic support and the parallel
elimination of all forms of export subsidies and disciplines on all export measures
with equivalent effect in accordance with the mandate from the Doha Work
Programme of the World Trade Organization, 17
16F
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11
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1954, No. 33480.
A/C.2/62/7, annex.
13
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the World Food Summit, 13–17 November
1996 (WFS 96/REP), part one, appendix.
14
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the World Food Summit: five years
later, 10–13 June 2002, part one, appendix; see also A/57/499, annex.
15
See resolution 55/2.
16
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2009, Supplement No. 9 (E/2009/29).
17
See A/C.2/56/7, annex.
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