A/RES/71/245
Agriculture development, food security and nutrition
International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the
Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, 11 the Programme of Action for the
Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020 12 and the SIDS Accelerated
Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway, 13
Recalling the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012,
entitled “The future we want”, 14
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly
for the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainab le development, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions —
economic, social and environmental — in a balanced and integrated manner, and to
building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking
to address their unfinished business,
Reaffirming also its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for
Development, which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, supports and complements it, helps to contextualize its means of
implementation targets with concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong
political commitment to address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling
environment at all levels for sustainable development in the spirit of global
partnership and solidarity,
Welcoming the Paris Agreement, 15 and its early entry into force, encouraging
all its parties to fully implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change 16 that have not yet done so to deposit
their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate,
as soon as possible,
Welcoming also the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on
antimicrobial resistance, held in New York on 21 September 2016, and its political
declaration, as set out in resolution 71/3 of 5 October 2016, in which the Assembly
reaffirmed the World Health Organization global action plan on antimicrobial
resistance, 17
Expressing concern that the multiple and complex causes of the food crises
that occur in different regions of the world, affecting developing countries,
especially net food importers, and their consequences for food security and nutrition
require a comprehensive and coordinated response in the short, medium and long
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Resolution 63/239, annex.
Report of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Istanbul, Turkey,
9–13 May 2011 (A/CONF.219/7), chap. II.
13
Resolution 69/15, annex.
14
Resolution 66/288, annex.
15
See FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21, annex.
16
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
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World Health Organization, document WHA68/2015/REC/1, annex 3.
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