Agriculture development, food security and nutrition A/RES/68/233 multidimensional causes of protracted crises through sharing effective analytical tools to identify the root causes of food insecurity in such crises, Taking note of the reports of the High-level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the Committee on World Food Security on biofuels and food security and on investing in smallholder agriculture for food security, Taking note also of the results of the global thematic consultation on hunger, food security and nutrition, jointly led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Programme, and presented at the global consultation in Madrid in April 2013, 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General; 19 2. Reiterates the need to adequately and urgently address agriculture development, food security and nutrition in the context of national, regional and international development policies, taking into account the importance of enhancing synergies between sustainable agriculture practices, biodiversity, food security, nutrition and development policies; 3. Also reiterates the importance of developing countries’ determining their own food security strategies, that improving food security and nutrition is a global challenge and a national policy responsibility and that any plans for addressing this challenge in the context of eradicating poverty must be nationally articulated, designed, owned, led and built in consultation with all key stakeholders at the national level, as appropriate, and urges Member States, especially those affected, to make food security and nutrition a high priority and to reflect this in their national programmes and budgets; 4. Calls upon the international community to support Africa in the implementation of the various programmes under the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, 20 especially the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme; 5. Welcomes the Secretary-General’s Zero Hunger Challenge, and the aim of a world free from hunger, and takes note of the progress made in improving cooperation, coordination and coherence by all stakeholders to overcome the challenges of hunger and malnutrition; 6. Also welcomes the six global targets set by the World Health Assembly to address global malnutrition; 7. Takes note of the Global Nutrition for Growth Compact, signed by more than 100 countries, companies and civil society organizations, to reduce the number of stunted children by 20 million by 2020 and the financial commitments made to support this goal; 8. Also takes note of the report of the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on its thirty-eighth session,17 which highlights, inter alia, the importance of the development of measures to protect Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems; 9. Welcomes the increased political commitment by Member States to tackle hunger and undernutrition, in this regard welcomes the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) _______________ 19 20 A/68/311. A/57/304, annex. 5/10