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vulnerable populations, recognizes the value of local purchase of food supplies,
which supports local markets, and stresses the need to remove food export
restrictions or extraordinary taxes for food purchased for non-commercial humanitarian
purposes, and the benefits of consultation and notification of any such new restrictions;
22. Urges Member States and international organizations to pursue policies
and strategies that improve the functioning of domestic, regional and international
markets and ensure equitable access for all, especially smallholders and women
farmers from developing countries, notes the importance of non-trade-distorting
special measures that are consistent with World Trade Organization rules aimed at
creating incentives for smallholder farmers in developing countries to enable them
to increase their productivity and compete on a more equal footing on world
markets, and urges Member States to refrain from taking measures that are
inconsistent with the rules of the World Trade Organization and that have adverse
impacts on global, regional and national food security;
23. Recognizes the urgency of, and reaffirming its commitment to, reaching a
successful and timely conclusion by 2010 to the Doha Round of World Trade
Organization negotiations with an ambitious, comprehensive and balanced outcome
as a key action to improve food security;
24. Also recognizes the need for Africa to embark on a green revolution to help
boost agricultural productivity, food production and regional food security, welcomes
the strong leadership taken by African countries in undertaking initiatives to address
the challenges of sustainable agricultural development and to achieve food security,
such as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme of the New
Partnership for Africa’s Development, that can provide a framework through which
support for agriculture and food security can be coordinated, and calls upon the
international community to support Africa in the implementation of the various
programmes under the New Partnership for Africa’s Development; 15
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25. Reaffirms the commitment to a crucial, decisive shift towards increased
short-, medium- and long-term national and international investment in agriculture
in developing countries, welcomes the commitment made by African leaders in the
Maputo Declaration on Agriculture and Food Security in Africa to raise the share of
agriculture and rural development in their budget expenditures to at least
10 per cent, and encourages other geographical regions to adopt similar quantitative,
time-bound commitments;
26. Notes, in this regard, the adoption of the Windhoek High-level Ministerial
Declaration on African Agriculture in the Twenty-first Century: Meeting the
Challenges, Making a Sustainable Green Revolution, on 10 February 2009; 16
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27. Notes the challenges faced by indigenous peoples in the context of food
security, and in this regard calls upon States to take special actions to combat the
root causes of the disproportionately high level of hunger and malnutrition among
indigenous peoples;
28. Reiterates the importance of developing countries determining their own
food security strategies, that food security is a national responsibility, and that any
plans for addressing food security challenges and eradication of poverty in relation
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See A/63/740, annex.