A/RES/70/223 Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 6. Also welcomes the six global nutrition targets set by the World Health Assembly to address global malnutrition; 25 7. 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 Growt h event, which will be held in 2016; 8. Welcomes the Secretary-General’s Zero Hunger Challenge and the aim of a world free from hunger, and takes note of the progress made in improving cooperation, coordination and coherence by all stakeholders to overcom e the challenges of hunger and malnutrition; 9. Stresses the need to increase sustainable agricultural production and productivity globally, noting the diversity of agricultural conditions and systems, including by improving and aiming to ensure the funct ioning of markets and trading systems and strengthening international cooperation, particularly for developing countries, and by increasing public and private investment in sustainable agriculture, land management and rural development, and notes that the benefit of such public and private investment and engagement should also benefit, where appropriate, local smallholders with regard to promoting food security, improving nutrition outcomes and reducing inequality; 10. Recognizes the need to increase the resilience of food and agricultural production to climate change, and encourages efforts at all levels to support climate sensitive agricultural practices, including agroforestry, conservation agriculture, water management schemes, drought- and flood-resistant seeds and sustainable livestock management, and measures to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable groups and food systems, which can also have a wider positive impact, emphasizing adaptation to climate change as a major concern and objective for all farmers and food producers, especially small-scale and family-farm producers; 11. Also recognizes the outcome of the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Paris from 30 November to 13 December 2015, noting the adverse impact of climate change on food security; 12. Reaffirms the necessity of promoting, enhancing and supporting more sustainable agriculture, including crops, livestock, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture, that improves food security, eradicates hunger and is economically viable, while conserving land, water, plant and animal genetic resources, biodiversity and ecosystems and enhancing resilience to climate change and natural disasters, and recognizes the need to maintain natural ecological processes that support sustainable and efficient food production systems and ensure food security; 13. Welcomes 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 use by Governments, as appropriate; 14. Recognizes that food systems have a fundamental role to play in promoting healthy diets and improving nutrition, and welco mes the establishment of _______________ 25 6/9 World Health Organization, document WHA65/2012/REC/1, annex 2.