Agriculture development, food security and nutrition A/RES/72/238 2. Stresses the importance of continued consideration of the issue of agriculture development, food security and nutrition, and encourages Member States and relevant stakeholders to give due consideration to this issue while implementing the internationally agreed development goals, in par ticular the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 28 and its Sustainable Development Goals; 3. Emphasizes that sustainable agricultural production, food security and nutrition are key elements for the eradication of poverty in all its forms and dimensions, and calls for greater efforts to sustainably enhance the agricultural production capacities, productivity and food security of developing countries; 4. 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; 5. Reiterates the importance of developing countries determining their own food security strategies, that improving food security and nutrition is a global challenge and a national policy responsibility and that any plans for addressing this challenge in the context of eradicating poverty must be nationally articulated, designed, owned, led and built in consultation, as an inclusive process, with all key stakeholders at the national level, as appropriate, and urges M ember States, especially those affected, to make food security and nutrition a high priority and to reflect this in their national programmes and budgets; 6. Calls upon the international community to continue its support for the implementation of the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme and its results framework, which is an integral component of the Programme that provides guidance on planning and implementing investment programmes; 7. Encourages Member States, in designing their national policies, to fully take into account the Rome Declaration on Nutrition 2 as well as the Framework for Action, 3 which provides a set of voluntary policy options and strategies for the use of Governments, as appropriate; 8. Urges increased political commitment by Member States to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition, notes, in this regard, the Scaling Up Nutrition movement, and encourages Member States to engage in the movement at the global and country levels to reduce the increasing level in global hunger and all forms of malnutrition, in particular among children, especially children under the age of 2, women, especially those who are pregnant and lactating, and youth; 9. Emphasizes the six global nutrition targets set by the World Health Assembly to address global malnutrition and the related monitoring framework; 10. Takes note of the Global Nutrition for Growth Compact, signed by more than 100 countries, companies and civil society organizations, to reduce the number of stunted children by 20 million by 2020 and the financial commitments made to support this goal, as well as the second Nutrition for Growth event, which was held in August 2016; 11. Welcomes the Secretary-General’s Zero Hunger Challenge and the aim of a world free from hunger, and recognizes the progress made in improving __________________ 28 17-23316 Resolution 70/1. 7/11