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30. Supports an inclusive consultation process for the development and the
broader ownership of principles for responsible agricultural investment that
enhances food security and nutrition, and acknowledges that the first step of this
consultation process will be to develop terms of reference that include the scope,
purpose, intended recipients and structure of those principles as well as the format
of the consultation process, taking into account existing frameworks, such as the
principles for responsible agricultural investment developed by the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for
Agricultural Development, the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development and the World Bank;
31. Encourages international, regional and national efforts to strengthen the
capacity of developing countries, in particular their small-scale producers, in order
to enhance the productivity and nutritional quality of food crops and to promote
sustainable practices in pre-harvest and post-harvest agricultural activities;
32. Underlines the need to achieve food security and nutrition through
sustainable agriculture in a manner that addresses the multiplicity of social needs,
without jeopardizing options for future generations;
33. Also underlines the need to continue to take into account sustainable
agriculture development and food security as an integral part of the three pillars of
sustainable development as identified at the 2005 World Summit (economic
development, social development and environmental protection);
34. Stresses the need to continue to strengthen cooperation among the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for
Agricultural Development, the World Food Programme, regional commissions and
all other relevant entities of the United Nations system and other intergovernmental
organizations, the international financial institutions and international trade,
financial and economic institutions, in accordance with their respective mandates, in
order to increase their effectiveness, as well as to strengthen cooperation with
non-governmental organizations and the private sector in promoting and
strengthening efforts towards agriculture development and food security and
nutrition;
35. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to ensure that a coordinated
follow-up to the 2009 World Summit on Food Security is undertaken at the field
level in the context of the resident coordinator system, taking into account the
coordinated follow-up to major international conferences of the United Nations;
36. Invites the Chair of the Committee on World Food Security to report, as
part of the Committee’s report to the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session,
through the Economic and Social Council, on the implementation of the reform of,
and on progress made towards achieving the vision of, the Committee;
37. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its
sixty-seventh session on developments related to issues highlighted in the present
resolution and on the progress in the implementation of the outcome of the 2009
World Summit on Food Security;
38. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-seventh session
the item entitled “Agriculture development and food security”.
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