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arrangements to enable small island developing States to benefit from and
sustainably manage straddling and highly migratory fish stocks covered by those
organizations and arrangements;
(n) To enhance local, national, regional and global cooperation to address the
causes of ocean acidification and to further study and minimize its impacts,
including through information-sharing, regional workshops, the integration of
scientists from small island developing States into international research teams,
steps to make marine ecosystems more resilient to the impacts of ocean acidification
and the possible development of a strategy for all small island developing States on
ocean acidification;
(o) To conserve by 2020 at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas in
small island developing States, especially areas of particular importance for
biodiversity and for ecosystem services, through effectively and equitably managed,
ecologically representative and well-connected systems of protected areas and other
effective area-based conservation measures in order to reduce the rate of
biodiversity loss in the marine environment;
(p) To address concerns about the long-term effects of munitions dumped at
sea, including their potential impact on human health and safety and on the marine
environment and resources.
Food security and nutrition
59. We recognize that small island developing States, primarily net food-importing
countries, are exceptionally vulnerable to the fluctuating availability and excessive
price volatility of food imports. It is therefore important to support the right of
everyone to have access to safe, sufficient and nutritious food, the eradication of
hunger and the provision of livelihoods while conserving, protecting and ensuring
the sustainable use of land, soil, forests, water, plants and animals, biodiversity and
ecosystems. We stress the crucial role of healthy marine ecosystems, sustainable
agriculture, sustainable fisheries and sustainable aquaculture for enhancing food
security and access to adequate, safe and nutritious food and in providing for the
livelihoods of the people of the small island developing States.
60. We also recognize the danger caused by an unhealthy diet and the need to
promote healthy food production and consumption.
61. We recognize the call, in the outcome of the interregional preparatory meeting
for the third International Conference on Small Island Developing States, adopted in
Bridgetown on 28 August 2013, 28 to facilitate a meeting on food and nutrition
security in small island developing States in order to develop an action programme
to address food and nutrition challenges facing those States, and we invite the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to facilitate this biennial forum.
62. We note the convening of the Second International Conference on Nutrition in
Rome in November 2014, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations and the World Health Organization, which has important
implications for small island developing States, and look forward to its outcome.
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