A/RES/68/139 Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas 6. Calls upon Member States to consider the concluding observations and recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concerning their reports to the Committee when formulating policies and designing programmes focused on the improvement of the situation of rural women, including those to be developed and implemented in cooperation with relevant international organizations; 7. Invites Governments to promote the economic empowerment of rural women, including through entrepreneurship training, and to adopt gender -responsive rural development strategies, including budget framework and relevant assessment measures, as well as to ensure that the needs and prioritie s of rural women and girls are systematically addressed and that they can effectively contribute to poverty alleviation, hunger eradication and food and nutrition security; 8. Encourages Governments and international organizations to implement the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012, 11 with a view to accelerating progress on gender equality and women’s empowerment in rural areas, and to ensure that the discussions concerning the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda take into account gender equality as well as the empowerment of rural women; 9. Invites the Commission on the Status of Women to give consideration to the issue of the empowerment of rural women in a timely and appropriate manner; 10. Invites Governments, relevant international organizations and the specialized agencies to continue to observe the International Day of Rural Women annually, on 15 October, as proclaimed by the General Assembly in its resolution 62/136, and to address rural women’s concerns and contributions in celebrating the International Year of Family Farming, 2014; 13 11. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its seventieth session on the implementation of the present resolution. 70th plenary meeting 18 December 2013 _______________ 13 6/6 See resolution 66/222.