A/RES/67/228
Agriculture development and food security
commissions and all other relevant entities of the United Nations system and other
intergovernmental organizations, the international financial institutions and
international trade 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 public and private sectors
in promoting and strengthening efforts towards agriculture development and food
security and nutrition;
28. Stresses the need to significantly reduce post-harvest and other food
losses and waste throughout the food supply chain through, inter alia, increased
promotion of appropriate harvesting practices, agro-food processing and appropriate
facilities for the storage and packaging of food;
29. Recognizes the important role and inclusive nature of the Committee on
World Food Security as a key organ in addressing the issue of global food security,
including in the context of the global partnership for food security;
30. Encourages international, regional and national efforts to strengthen the
capacity of developing countries, in particular their small-scale producers, in order
to enhance the production, productivity and nutritional quality of food crops and to
promote sustainable practices in pre-harvest and post-harvest agricultural activities;
31. Encourages countries to give due consideration to implementing the
Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries
and Forests in the Context of National Food Security,16 as endorsed by the
Committee on World Food Security on 11 May 2012;
32. Requests the relevant entities of the United Nations system, in
accordance with their respective mandates and in the most cost-effective manner, to
ensure the speedy dissemination and promotion of the Guidelines;
33. Reaffirms the commitments to making every effort to achieve the
Millennium Development Goals by 2015 in support of developing countries, in
particular those countries that are lagging most behind and those Goals that are most
off track, thus improving the lives of the poorest people;
34. Invites Member States and other stakeholders to give appropriate
consideration to the issue of agriculture development, food security and nutrition in
the discussions on the post-2015 development agenda;
35. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its
sixty-eighth session on developments related to issues highlighted in the present
resolution;
36. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-eighth session an
item entitled “Agriculture development, food security and nutrition”.
61st plenary meeting
21 December 2012
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