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32. Stresses the importance of international cooperation and development
assistance as an effective contribution both to the expansion and improvement of
agriculture and its environmental sustainability, food production, breeding projects
on diversity of crops and livestock and institutional innovations such as community
seed banks, farmer field schools and seed fairs, and to the provision of humanitarian
food assistance in activities related to emergency situations for the realization of the
right to food and the achievement of sustainable food security, while recognizing
that each country has the primary responsibility for ensuring the implementation of
national programmes and strategies in this regard;
33. Also stresses that States parties to the World Trade Organization
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights should cons ider
implementing that agreement in a manner that is supportive of food security, while
being mindful of the obligation of Member States to promote and protect the right to
food;
34. Calls upon Member States, the United Nations system and other relevant
stakeholders to support national efforts aimed at responding rapidly to the food
crises currently occurring across different regions, and expresses its deep concern
that funding shortfalls are forcing the World Food Programme to cut operations
across different regions, including Southern Africa;
35. Invites all relevant international organizations, including the World Bank
and the International Monetary Fund, to continue to promote policies and projects
that have a positive impact on the right to food, to e nsure that partners respect the
right to food in the implementation of common projects, to support strategies of
Member States aimed at the fulfilment of the right to food and to avoid any actions
that could have a negative impact on its realization;
36. Takes note with appreciation of the interim report of the Special
Rapporteur, 19 which underlines, inter alia, the adverse impact of climate change on
the right to food;
37. Recognizes the importance of giving due consideration to the adverse
impact of climate change and to the full realization of the right to food, and looks
forward to the outcome to be reached in Paris at the twenty-first session of the
Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change;
38. Reiterates its support for the realization of the mandate of the Special
Rapporteur, and requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to provide all the human and financial
resources necessary for its effective fulfilment;
39. Welcomes the work already done by the Committee on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights in promoting the right to adequate food, in particular its general
comment No. 12 (1999) on the right to adequate food (article 11 of the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), 20 in which the Committee
affirmed, inter alia, that the right to adequate food is indivisibly linked to the
inherent dignity of the human person, indispensable for the fulfilment of other
human rights enshrined in the International Bill of Human Rights and inseparable
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See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2000, Supplement No. 2 and corrigendum
(E/2000/22 and Corr.1), annex V.
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