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13. Recognizes the need to support a comprehensive and coordinated
response to address the multiple and complex causes of the global food crisis,
including the adoption of political, economic, social, financial and technical
solutions in the short, medium and long terms by national Governments and the
international community, including for mitigating the impact of high and
excessively volatile food prices on developing countries; the relevant United
Nations organizations have an important role to play in this regard;
14. Underlines the importance of timely, accurate and transparent
information in helping to address excessive food price volatility, and in this regard
takes note of the Agricultural Market Information System hosted by the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and urges the participating
international organizations, private sector actors and Governments to ensure the
public dissemination of timely and quality food market information products;
15. Urges Member States and international organizations to pursue policies
and strategies that improve the functioning of domestic, regional and international
markets and ensure equitable access for all to those markets, especially smallholder
and women farmers in developing countries, notes the importance of non-tradedistorting special measures that are consistent with the rules of the World Trade
Organization aimed at creating incentives for smallholder farmers in developing
countries to enable them to increase their productivity and to compete on a more
equal footing in world food markets, and urges Member States to refrain from taking
measures that are inconsistent with the rules of the World Trade Organization and
that have adverse impacts on global, regional and national food security;
16. Stresses that a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and
equitable multilateral trading system will promote agriculture and rural development
in developing countries and contribute to world food security, and urges national,
regional and international strategies to promote the participation of farmers,
especially smallholder farmers, including women, in community, domestic, regional
and international markets;
17. Also stresses the need to remove food export restrictions or extraordinary
taxes for food purchased for non-commercial humanitarian purposes by the World
Food Programme, and not to impose them in the future;
18. Calls upon Member States and the World Trade Organization to take
measures to promote trade policies that would be capable of promoting further trade
in agriculture products, identifying the obstacles to trade which have the most
serious impact on the world’s poor and contributing to supporting small-scale and
marginalized producers in developing countries;
19. Recognizes the urgency of, and reaffirms its commitment to, reaching an
early and successful conclusion of the Doha Round of World Trade Organization
negotiations with a balanced, ambitious, comprehensive and development-oriented
outcome as a key action to improve food security;
20. Encourages efforts at all levels to establish and strengthen social
protection measures and programmes, including national safety nets and protection
programmes for the needy and vulnerable such as food- and cash-for-work, cashtransfer and voucher programmes, school feeding programmes and mother-and-child
nutrition programmes;
21. Reaffirms the need to include prevention and mitigation measures for the
poor and smallholder farmers, particularly women in developing countries,
appropriate to their national context and circumstances and in accordance with their
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