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funds, to give priority to and provide the necessary funding to realize the aim of halving by
2015 the number, or at least the proportion, of people who suffer from hunger, as stated in
Millennium Development Goal 1, as well as the right to food, as set out in the Rome
Declaration on World Food Security and the United Nations Millennium Declaration;
26.
Reaffirms that integrating food and nutritional support, with the goal that all
people at all times will have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their
dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life, is part of a comprehensive
effort to improve public health, including the response to the spread of HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis, malaria and other communicable diseases;
27.
Urges States to give adequate priority in their development strategies and
expenditures to the realization of the right to food;
28.
Stresses the importance of international cooperation and development
assistance, as an effective contribution both to the expansion and improvement of
agriculture and its environmental sustainability and to the provision of humanitarian food
assistance in activities related 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;
29.
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;
30.
Encourages developing countries to establish regional arrangements with the
support of the international community and development partners to ensure adequate food
production and thereby contribute to ensuring food security, in particular in developing
countries and in those countries that have scarce fertile land;
31.
Encourages the Special Rapporteur on the right to food and the Special
Representative of the Secretary-General 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;
32.
Also 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;
33.
Recognizes the negative impact on the full enjoyment of the right to adequate
food of insufficient purchasing power and of increased volatility of prices of agricultural
commodities on the international markets, particularly on people in developing countries
and on net food-importing countries;
34.
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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