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to food security must be nationally articulated, designed, owned and led, and built
on consultation with all key stakeholders, and urges Member States to make food
security a high priority and reflect this in their national programmes and budgets;
29. Acknowledges, in this regard, national and regional efforts by developing
countries to implement long-term policies and measures that contribute to food
security and agricultural development, such as the food security fund of some Latin
American and Caribbean countries, the Latin American and the Caribbean without
Hunger 2025 initiative, adopted at the twenty-ninth Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations Regional Conference for Latin America and the
Caribbean, held in Caracas from 24 to 28 April 2006, the Presidential Summit on
Sovereignty and Food Security: Foods for Life, held in Managua on 7 May 2008,
the Sirte Declaration on Investing in Agriculture for Economic Growth and Food
Security, adopted at the thirteenth ordinary session of the Assembly of the African
Union in Sirte, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, on 3 July 2009, the Emergency Programme
for Arab Food Security launched at the Arab Economic and Social Development
Summit, held in Kuwait on 19 and 20 January 2009, the South Asian Association for
Regional Cooperation Food Security Reserve, and the Integrated Food Security
Framework and Strategic Plan of Action on Food Security of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations;
30. Underlines the importance of the initiatives and commitments undertaken
by the international community to enhance development of the agricultural sector
and food security in developing countries, and of their full realization and
implementation in a timely and reliable manner;
31. Welcomes, in that regard, the commitments made at the Group of Eight
Summit held in L’Aquila, Italy, from 8 to 10 July 2009, to act with the scale and
urgency needed to achieve sustainable global food security, 17 and welcomes the
commitments made by the countries represented at L’Aquila towards a goal of
mobilizing 20 billion United States dollars over three years through this coordinated,
comprehensive strategy focused on sustainable agriculture development;
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32. Invites all members of the international community, including international
and regional financial institutions, and urges relevant bodies within the United
Nations system, to cooperate actively in a coordinated manner in the
implementation of the outcome of the World Summit on Food Security adopted in
Rome in November 2009;
33. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that a coordinated follow-up at
the field level to the World Summit on Food Security is undertaken in the context of
the resident coordinator system, taking into account the coordinated follow-up to
United Nations major international conferences;
34. Invites the Chairperson of the Committee on World Food Security to
report, as part of the Committee’s report to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth
session, through the Economic and Social Council, on the implementation of the
reform of and on progress made towards achieving the vision of the Committee;
35. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its
sixty-fifth session on developments related to issues highlighted in the present
resolution and the progress of the implementation of the outcome of the World
Summit on Food Security;
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See A/63/927-S/2009/358, annex.
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