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To support the national plans and programmes of countries to improve
nutrition in poor households, in particular plans and programmes that are aimed at
combating undernutrition in mothers and children, and those targeting the irreversible
effects of chronic undernutrition in early childhood, from gestation to the age of 2 years;
34.
Urges States to give adequate priority in their development strategies and
expenditures to the realization of the right to food;
35.
Stresses the importance of international cooperation and development
assistance as an effective contribution to both the expansion and improvement of
agriculture and its environmental sustainability, and the provision of humanitarian food
assistance in activities relating 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;
36.
Invites all relevant international organizations, including the World Bank and
the International Monetary Fund, to promote such policies and projects that have a positive
impact on the right to food, to ensure 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
the realization of the right to food;
37.
Encourages the Special Rapporteur on the right to food and the Working
Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business
enterprises to cooperate on the subject of the contribution of the private sector to the
realization of the right to food, including the importance of ensuring sustainable water
resources for human consumption and agriculture;
38.
Encourages the Special Rapporteur to continue his collaboration with
relevant international organizations and United Nations agencies, programmes and funds, in
particular the Rome-based ones, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food
Programme, in order to contribute to ensuring that the right to food is promoted further
within these organizations, in accordance with their respective mandates, including for the
advancement of smallholders and agricultural workers in both developing and least
developed countries;
39.
Expresses concern at the negative impact on the full enjoyment of the right to
adequate food of insufficient purchasing power and the increased price volatility of
agricultural commodities on international markets, particularly on people in developing
countries and on net food-importing countries;
40.
Stresses the need to address the root causes of excessive food price volatility,
including its structural causes, at all levels, and the need to manage the risks linked to still
high and excessively volatile prices in agriculture commodities and their consequences for
global food security and nutrition, as well as for smallholder farmers and poor urban
dwellers;
41.
Reaffirms that all States should take steps, individually and through
international assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical, to the
maximum of available resources, with a view to achieving progressively the full realization
of the right to food by all appropriate means, including particularly the adoption of
legislative measures;
42.
Encourages the Special Rapporteur, within his existing mandate, to explore,
in consultation with Member States and relevant stakeholders, ways and means of raising
the capacity of countries, particularly developing countries, including least developed and
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