A/RES/70/154
The right to food
the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in November 2004, 7 as
well as the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and the Framework for Action, adopted
in Rome on 21 November 2014, 8
Reaffirming also the Five Rome Principles for Sustainable Global Food
Security contained in the Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security,
adopted in Rome on 16 November 2009, 9
Reaffirming further that all human rights are universal, indivisible,
interdependent and interrelated and that they must be treated globally, in a fair and
equal manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis,
Reaffirming that a peaceful, stable and enabling political, social and economic
environment, at both the national and the international levels, is the essential
foundation that will enable States to give adequate priority to food and nutrition
security and poverty eradication,
Reiterating, as set out in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security, the
Declaration of the World Food Summit and the Rome Declaration on Nutrition, that
food should not be used as an instrument of political or economic pressure, and
reaffirming in this regard the importance of interna tional cooperation and solidarity,
as well as the necessity of refraining from unilateral measures that are not in
accordance with international law and the Charter and that endanger food and
nutrition security,
Convinced that each State must adopt a strategy consistent with its resources
and capacities to achieve its individual goals in implementing the recommendations
contained in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the World Food
Summit Plan of Action as well as in the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and the
Framework for Action and, at the same time, cooperate regionally and
internationally in order to organize collective solutions to global issues of food and
nutrition security in a world of increasingly interlinked institutions, societies an d
economies where coordinated efforts and shared responsibilities are essential,
Recognizing the complex character of the global food crisis, in which the right
to adequate food has been threatened to be violated on a substantial scale, as a
combination of several major factors, such as the global financial and economic
crisis, environmental degradation, desertification and the impacts of global climate
change, as well as natural disasters and the lack in many countries of the appropriate
technology, investment and capacity-building necessary to confront its impact,
particularly in developing countries, least developed countries and small island
developing States, and the need for coherence and collaboration between
international institutions at the global level,
Resolved to act to ensure that the human rights perspective is taken into
account at the national, regional and international levels in measures to address the
impacts of the global food crisis,
Stressing that improving access to productive resources and investment in rural
development is essential for eradicating hunger and poverty, in particular in
developing countries, through, inter alia, the promotion of investments in
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7
E/CN.4/2005/131, annex.
World Health Organization, document EB 136/8, annexes I and II.
9
See Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document WSFS 2009/2.
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