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(i) Promoting the empowerment and participation of rural women as critical
agents for enhancing agricultural and rural development and food security and
ensuring their equal access to productive resources, land, financing, technologies,
training and markets;
(j) Reaffirming the international commitment to eliminating hunger and to
securing access to food for all and reiterating, in this regard, the important role of
relevant organizations, particularly the United Nations system;
(k) Supporting the Five Rome Principles for Sustainable Global Food
Security contained in the Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security; 16
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(l) Strengthening international coordination and governance for food
security, through the Global Partnership for Agriculture, Food Security and
Nutrition, of which the Committee on World Food Security is a central component,
and reiterating that it is essential to enhance global governance, building on existing
institutions and fostering effective partnerships;
(m) Promoting efforts to improve capacity-building in sustainable fisheries
management, especially in developing countries, as fish is an important source of
animal protein for millions of people and is an essential component in the fight
against malnutrition and hunger;
(n) Supporting a comprehensive and coordinated response to address the
multiple and complex causes of the global food crisis, including the adoption of
political, economic, social, financial and technical solutions in the short, medium
and long term by national Governments and the international community, including
for mitigating the impact of the high volatility of food prices on developing
countries. The relevant United Nations organizations have an important role to play
in this regard;
(o) Promoting at all levels a strong enabling environment for enhancing
agricultural production, productivity and sustainability in developing countries,
including through public and private investment, land-use planning, efficient water
management, adequate rural infrastructure, including irrigation, and developing
strong agricultural value chains and improving access of farmers to markets and
land and supportive economic policies and institutions at the national and
international levels;
(p) Supporting small-scale producers, including women, to increase
production of a wide spectrum of traditional and other crops and livestock, and
improving their access to markets, credits and inputs, thereby increasing incomeearning opportunities for poor people and their ability to purchase food and improve
their livelihoods;
(q) Increasing the rate of agricultural productivity growth in developing
countries through promotion of the development and dissemination of appropriate,
affordable and sustainable agricultural technology, as well as the transfer of such
technologies on mutually agreed terms, and supporting agricultural research and
innovation, extension services and agricultural education in developing countries;
(r) Increasing the sustainable production and augmenting the availability
and quality of food, including through long-term investment, access of smallholder
farmers to markets, credit and inputs, improved land-use planning, crop
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See Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document WSFS 2009/2.