A/RES/73/171
The right to food
20. Recognizes the important role of indigenous peoples and their traditional
knowledge and seed supply systems, as well as the important role of new
technologies, in the conservation of biodiversity and in aiming to ensure food security
and improved nutrition;
21. Recalls the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples, 17 acknowledges that many indigenous organizations and representatives of
indigenous peoples have expressed in different forums their deep concerns over the
obstacles and challenges they face in achieving the full enjoyment of the right to food,
and calls upon States to take special actions to combat the root causes of the
disproportionately high level of hunger and malnutrition among indigenous peoples
and the continuous discrimination against them;
22. Also recalls the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of
the General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, held
on 22 and 23 September 2014, 18 and the commitment to developing, in conjunction
with the indigenous peoples concerned and where appropriate, policies, programmes
and resources to support indigenous peoples’ occupations, traditional subsistence
activities, economies, livelihoods, food security and nutrition;
23. Notes the need to further examine various concepts, such as “food
sovereignty”, and their relation to food security and the right to food, bearing in mind
the need to avoid any negative impact on the enjoyment of the right to food for all
people at all times;
24. Requests all States and private actors, as well as international
organizations, within their respective mandates, to take fully into account the need to
promote the effective realization of the right to food for all;
25. Recognizes the need to strengthen national commitment, as well as
international assistance, upon the request of and in cooperati on with the affected
countries, towards the full realization and protection of the right to food, and in
particular to develop national protection mechanisms for people forced to leave their
homes and land because of hunger or humanitarian emergencies affe cting their
enjoyment of the right to food;
26. Takes note with appreciation of the growing movement, in different
regions of the world, towards the adoption of framework laws, national strategies and
measures in support of the full realization of the right to food for all;
27. Stresses the need to make efforts to mobilize and optimize the allocation
and utilization of technical and financial resources from all sources, including
external debt relief for developing countries, and to reinforce national act ions to
implement sustainable food security policies;
28. Calls for a successful, development-oriented outcome of the trade
negotiations of the World Trade Organization, in particular on the remaining issues
of the Doha Development Round, as a contribution to the creation of international
conditions permitting the full realization of the right to food;
29. Stresses that all States should make all efforts to ensure that their
international policies of a political and economic nature, including internationa l trade
agreements, do not have a negative impact on the right to food in other countries;
30. Recalls the importance of the New York Declaration on Action against
Hunger and Poverty, and recommends the continuation of efforts aimed at identifying
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