A/RES/71/191
The right to food
28. Stresses that all States should make all efforts to ensure that their
international policies of a political and economic nature, including international
trade agreements, do not have a negative impact on the right to food in other
countries;
29. Recalls the importance of the New York Declaration on Action against
Hunger and Poverty, and recommends the continuation of efforts aimed at
identifying additional sources of financing for the fight against hunger and poverty,
as well as non-communicable diseases;
30. Recognizes that the promises made at the World Food Summit in 1996 to
halve the number of persons who are undernourished are not being fulfilled, while
recognizing the efforts of Member States in this regard, and once again invites all
international financial and development institutions, as well as the relevant United
Nations agencies and funds, to give priority to and provide the funding necessary to
realize the right to food, as set out in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security,
and to achieve the aims of Goal 2 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 4
and other food and nutrition-related targets;
31. Reaffirms that integrating food and nutritional support, with the goal that
all people at all times will have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet
their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life, is part of a
comprehensive effort to improve public health, alongside the response to the spread
of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other communicable diseases;
32. Urges States to give adequate priority in their development strategies and
expenditures to the realization of the right to food;
33. Stresses the importance of international cooperation and development
assistance as an effective contribution both to the expansion and improvement of
agriculture and its environmental sustainability, food production, breeding projects
on diversity of crops and livestock and institutional innovations such as community
seed banks, farmer field schools and seed fairs, and to the provision of humanitarian
food assistance in activities related to emergency situations for the realization of the
right to food and the achievement of sustainable food security, while recognizing
that each country has the primary responsibility for ensuring the implementation of
national programmes and strategies in this regard;
34. Also stresses that States parties to the World Trade Organization
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights should consider
implementing that agreement in a manner that is supportive of food security, while
being mindful of the obligation of Member States to promote and protect the right
to food;
35. Calls upon Member States, the United Nations system and other relevant
stakeholders to support national efforts aimed at responding rapidly to the food
crises currently occurring across different regions, and expresses its deep concern
that funding shortfalls are forcing the World Food Programme to cut operations
across different regions, including Southern Africa;
36. Invites all relevant international organizations, including the World Bank
and the International Monetary Fund, to continue to promote policies and p rojects
that have a positive impact on the right to food, to ensure that partners respect the
right to food in the implementation of common projects, to support strategies of
Member States aimed at the fulfilment of the right to food and to avoid any actio ns
that could have a negative impact on its realization;
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