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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition
especially those affected, to make food security and nutrition a high priority and to
reflect this in their national programmes and budgets;
5.
Calls upon the international community to continue its support for the
implementation of the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme
and its results framework, which is an integral component of the Pro gramme that
provides guidance on planning and implementing investment programmes;
6.
Encourages Member States, in designing their national policies, to fully
take into account the Rome Declaration on Nutrition 2 as well as the Framework for
Action, 3 which provides a set of voluntary policy options and strate gies for the use
of Governments, as appropriate;
7.
Welcomes the increased political commitment by Member States to tackle
hunger and all forms of malnutrition, in this regard welcomes the Scaling Up
Nutrition movement, and encourages Member States to engage in the movement at
the global and country levels to further reduce global hunger and all forms of
malnutrition, in particular in women, especially pregnant and lactating women, and
children under age 2;
8.
Also welcomes the six global nutrition targets set by the World Health
Assembly to address global malnutrition;
9.
Takes note of the Global Nutrition for Growth Compact, signed by more
than 100 countries, companies and civil society organizations, to reduce the number
of stunted children by 20 million by 2020 and the financial commitments made to
support this goal, as well as the second Nutrition for Growth event, which was held
in August 2016;
10. Welcomes the Secretary-General’s Zero Hunger Challenge and the aim of
a world free from hunger, and recognizes the progress made in improving
cooperation, coordination and coherence by all stakeholders to overcome the
challenges of hunger and malnutrition;
11. Stresses the need to increase sustainable agricultural production and
productivity globally, noting the diversity of agricultural conditions and systems,
including by improving and aiming to ensure the functioning of markets and trading
systems and strengthening international cooperation, particularly for developing
countries, and by increasing responsible public and private investment in sustainable
agriculture, land management and rural development, and notes that the benefit of
such public and private investment and engagement should also reach, where
appropriate, local smallholders with regard to promoting food security, improving
nutrition outcomes and reducing inequality;
12. Recognizes the need to increase the resilience of food and agricultural
production to climate change, bearing in mind the importance of safeguarding food
security and ending hunger and the particular vulnerabilities of food production
systems to the adverse impacts of climate change, and encourages efforts at all
levels to support climate-sensitive agricultural practices, including agroforestry,
conservation agriculture, water management schemes, drought- and flood-resistant
seeds and sustainable livestock management, and measures to strengthen the
resilience of vulnerable groups and food systems, which can also have a wider
positive impact, emphasizing adaptation to climate change as a major concern and
objective for all farmers and food producers, especially small -scale producers;
13. Reaffirms the need to promote, enhance and support more sustainable
agriculture, including crops, livestock, forestry, fisheries and aqu aculture, that
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