United Nations General Assembly A/RES/66/221 Distr.: General 28 March 2012 Sixty-sixth session Agenda item 25 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2011 [on the report of the Second Committee (A/66/446)] 66/221. International Year of Quinoa, 2013 The General Assembly, Noting that quinoa is a natural food high in nutritional value, Recognizing that Andean indigenous peoples, through their traditional knowledge and practices of living well, in harmony with nature, have maintained, controlled, protected and preserved quinoa in its natural state, including its many varieties and landraces, as food for present and future generations, Affirming the need to focus world attention on the role that quinoa biodiversity can play, owing to the nutritional value of quinoa, in providing food security and nutrition and in the eradication of poverty in support of the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and of the outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, 1 Recalling resolution 15/2011 adopted on 2 July 2011 by the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at its thirty-seventh session, 2 Recalling also the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the World Food Summit Plan of Action, 3 the Declaration of the World Food Summit: five years later 4 and the Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security, 5 Recalling further Economic and Social Council resolution 1980/67 of 25 July 1980 on international years and anniversaries and General Assembly resolutions _______________ 1 See resolution 65/1. See Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the Conference of FAO, Thirty-seventh Session, Rome, 25 June–2 July 2011 (C 2011/REP). 3 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the World Food Summit, 13–17 November 1996 (WFS 96/REP), part one, appendix. 4 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. 5 See Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document WSFS 2009/2. 2 11-47208 *1147208* Please rec cle ♲