Agriculture development, food security and nutrition A/RES/70/223 internationally agreed development goals, including the Sust ainable Development Goals, particularly those related to ending hunger and malnutrition, Reaffirming the importance of supporting the African Union’s Agenda 2063, as well as its 10-year plan of action, as a strategic framework for ensuring a positive socioeconomic transformation in Africa within the next 50 years and its continental programme embedded in the resolutions of the General Assembly on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development and regional initiatives, such as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme, Welcoming the outcome of the forty-second session of the Committee on World Food Security, held in Rome from 12 to 15 October 2015, 17 taking note of the Committee’s endorsement of the voluntary Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems in 2014, 18 and recalling its Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in th e Context of National Food Security, 19 Noting with appreciation the work undertaken by relevant international bodies and organizations, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Developme nt, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) on agricultural development and on enhancing food security and improving nutrition outcomes, Welcoming the Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods, adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union at its twenty third ordinary session, and welcoming also the African Union strategy and road map for facilitating the realization of the 2014 Malabo Commitments on Agriculture, launched during the twenty-fourth ordinary session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government, in January 2015, Reaffirming that agriculture remains a fundamental and key sector for developing countries, and noting the importance of working towards eliminating all forms of protectionism and of the commitments to comprehensive negotiations aimed at substantial improvement in market access, substantial reduction in trade distorting national support and the parallel elimination of all forms of export subsidies and disciplines on all export measures with equivalent effect, as provided in the mandate from the Doha Work Programme, 20 the framework adopted by the General Council of the World Trade Organization on 1 August 2004 and the Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration adopted by the World Trade Organization in 2005, Reaffirming also the right of everyone to have access to safe, sufficient and nutritious food, consistent with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger, so that they may be able to fully develop and maintain their physical and mental capacities, and underlining the need to make special efforts to meet nutritional needs, especially of women, children, older _______________ 17 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document C 2017/19. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document C 2015/20, appendix D. 19 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document CL 144/9 (C 2013/20), appendix D. 20 See A/C.2/56/7, annex. 18 3/9