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and reiterating that it is essential to enhance global governance, building on existing
institutions and fostering effective partnerships;
(m) Promoting efforts to improve capacity-building in sustainable fisheries
management, especially in developing countries, as fish is an important source of
animal protein for millions of people and is an essential component in the fight
against malnutrition and hunger;
(n) Supporting a comprehensive and coordinated response to address the
multiple and complex causes of the global food crisis, including the adoption of
political, economic, social, financial and technical solutions in the short, medium
and long term by national Governments and the international community, including
for mitigating the impact of the high volatility of food prices on developing
countries. The relevant United Nations organizations have an important role to play
in this regard;
(o) Promoting at all levels a strong enabling environment for enhancing
agricultural production, productivity and sustainability in developing countries,
including through public and private investment, land-use planning, efficient water
management, adequate rural infrastructure, including irrigation, and developing
strong agricultural value chains and improving access of farmers to markets and
land and supportive economic policies and institutions at the national and
international levels;
(p) Supporting small-scale producers, including women, to increase
production of a wide spectrum of traditional and other crops and livestock, and
improving their access to markets, credits and inputs, thereby increasing incomeearning opportunities for poor people and their ability to purchase food and improve
their livelihoods;
(q) Increasing the rate of agricultural productivity growth in developing
countries through promotion of the development and dissemination of appropriate,
affordable and sustainable agricultural technology, as well as the transfer of such
technologies on mutually agreed terms, and supporting agricultural research and
innovation, extension services and agricultural education in developing countries;
(r) Increasing the sustainable production and augmenting the availability
and quality of food, including through long-term investment, access of smallholder
farmers to markets, credit and inputs, improved land-use planning, crop
diversification, commercialization, and development of an adequate rural
infrastructure and enhanced market access for developing countries;
(s) Delivering on the commitments made to achieve global food security,
and providing adequate and predictable resources through bilateral and multilateral
channels, including the commitments set out in the Aquila Food Security Initiative;
(t) Addressing environmental challenges to sustainable agricultural
development such as water quality and availability, deforestation and desertification,
land and soil degradation, dust, floods, drought and unpredictable weather patterns
and loss of biodiversity, and promoting the development and dissemination of
appropriate, affordable and sustainable agricultural technologies and the transfer of
such technologies on mutually agreed terms;
(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;
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