A/RES/66/220
Decade 2011–2020, 11 as well as its resolutions 64/224 of 21 December 2009 and
65/178 of 20 December 2010,
Recalling further the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the World
Food Summit Plan of Action, 12 the Declaration of the World Food Summit: five
years later, 13 including the goal of achieving food security for all through an
ongoing effort to eradicate hunger in all countries, with an immediate view to
reducing by half the number of undernourished people no later than 2015, as well as
the commitment to achieving the goals set out in paragraph 19 of the United Nations
Millennium Declaration, 14
Acknowledging the work undertaken by the High-level Task Force on the
Global Food Security Crisis,
Welcoming the outcome of the thirty-seventh session of the Committee on
World Food Security, held in Rome from 17 to 22 October 2011,
Noting the ongoing process of developing principles for responsible
agricultural investment that respects rights, livelihoods and resources, as well as the
inclusive process for the development of voluntary guidelines on the responsible
governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food
security,
Reiterating that the multiple and complex causes of the global food crisis in
developing countries, especially for net food importers, and its consequences for
food security and nutrition require a comprehensive and coordinated response in the
short, medium and long terms by national Governments and the international
community, and remaining concerned that high and excessively volatile food prices
pose a serious challenge to the fight against poverty and hunger and to the efforts of
developing countries to attain food security and nutrition and to achieve the
objective of reducing by half the number of undernourished people no later than
2015, as well as other internationally agreed development goals, including the
Millennium Development Goals,
Recalling the agreement to keep under regular review, by the Ministerial
Conference and appropriate organs of the World Trade Organization, the impact of
the results of the Uruguay Round on the least developed countries as well as on the
net food-importing developing countries, with a view to fostering positive measures
to enable them to achieve their development objectives, and in this regard calls for
the implementation of the Marrakesh Decision on Measures Concerning the Possible
Negative Effects of the Reform Programme on Least Developed and Net FoodImporting Developing Countries, 15
Stressing the need to increase investment in agriculture and rural development,
including through international cooperation, with a view to increasing the
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11
Report of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Istanbul, Turkey, 913 May 2011 (United Nations publication, Sales No. 11.II.A.1), chap. II.
12
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the World Food Summit,
13–17 November 1996 (WFS 96/REP), part one, appendix.
13
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the World Food Summit: five years
later, 10–13 June 2002, part one, appendix; see also A/57/499, annex.
14
See resolution 55/2.
15
See Legal Instruments Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations,
done at Marrakesh on 15 April 1994 (GATT secretariat publication, Sales No. GATT/1994-7).
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